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

U. H. J.

of controverting Points, to the great delay of Business & a vast
Expence to the Country
But as soon as ever this house understood by your Message of the
first of August, that you had not agreed to our Amendments, & in
Consequence thereof, that the Bill would not pass; this house took
the Additional and Supplementary Bill into serious Consideration :
And as it is a Bill, which may be beneficial to the People of this
Province, this house in Relation thereunto, & to any other bill, which
tends to promote the publick good, will, at all times, be ready to do
their parts, without obstructing any Man in the Enjoyment of the
fruits of his Labour
Signed p Or.der John Ross Cl. Up Ho.

An Engrossed bill from the lower house by M^r Beal & M^r War-
field Entituled an Art for the Relief of Thomas Worsley Hezekiah
Clarke & Benjamin Freeman Prisoners in Ann Arundel County Goal
thus subscribed
5^th August 1729
Read & assented to by the Lower house of Assembly
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl Lo. Ho.

p. 71

Read & assented to by this house & Ordered to be so subscribed,
the Paper bill so Endorsed is sent to the lower house by Philemon
Lloyd Esq^r
The following Message being prepared is sent to the lower house
by John Hall Esq^r

By the Upper house of Assembly 5^th Aug^t 1729
Gentlemen.
We think proper to remind you of Our Message of 29^th of July
sent by Coll Tilghman in relation to the Act Entituled an Act to
prevent the Abuses of concealing Convicted felons & other Offenders
imported into this Province, & for the better Discovery of them, for
as much as that Act will in a short Time be in force
Signed p Order John Ross Cl. Lo. Ho.

A Message from the Lower house by M^r Smith & Eleven more

By the Lower house of Assembly 5^th August 1729
May it please your Honours
This house having taken into Consideration that the Right Honble
the Lord Proprietary hath frequently dissented to Laws pass'd in
this Province by the Legislature thereof, which We conceive to be an
Aggrievance to his Majesty's Subjects therein & not warranted by
the Charter, and as it is an Affair of the greatest Importance to the