312 Assembly Proceedings, July 10-August 8, 1729.

U. H. J.

Read the Petition of Christopher Gardiner a languishing Prisoner
in Baltemore County and ordered to be thus Endorsed

By the Upper House of Assembly 11^th July 1729
Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

Sent to the Lower house by Jn^o Hall Esq^r who returns & says he
delivered it.
The Honourable Edward Henry Calvert Esq^r attended by the rest
of the Members of this House wait upon His Excellency the Gov^r
and present to Him their Answer to his most favourable Speech to
both Houses of Assembly at the Opening of the Session which is as
follows viz.

To His Excellency Benedict Leonard Calvert Governor & Com-
mander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland

The humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly

p. 5

May it please your Excellency
As it is not to be doubted but the publick Good of all British
Colonies, more especially with Regard to their Proceedings in
Legislation is best carried on and most successfully propagated
when Loyalty, Moderation and Justice are allowed to be the Basis
of their most weighty Considerations: We therefore the members
of the Upper House of Assembly in a just Sense of your Excel-
lency's Goodness acknowledge it to be a convincing Evidence of
your great Concern & tender Regards for the Prosperity of this
Province that you have been pleased upon the Opening of this Ses-
sion to recommend the Practice of Virtues so eminently perspicuous
in themselves and so universally approved of for the Attainment of
all those good Ends and Purposes to which this present Meeting in
Assembly is particularly designed
And We do with a great deal of Pleasure assure your Excellency
that We His Lordships faithful Tenants who have the Honour to
sit in this House are fully resolved to confine Ourselves to those Paths
in your Excellencys kind Speech pointed out to us, and that we will
endeavour to make right Reason and a Calm Reflection upon things
the Standard of all our Proceedings
Your Excellencys Proposal of a Limitation in Time to Suits in
Appeal from the Court of Chancery, and also of the necessity of
vesting sufficient Powers in the Person of the senior Councillor
present for determining Causes in Appeal, and whatever may be de-