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People to be at a Certainty about their Laws: Wee desire your Hon-
ours to join with this house in applying to his Lordship, or in taking
such other Steps as may be necessary to settle a matter of so great
Consequence
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Philemon Lloyd Esq^r from the Committee of both houses ap-
pointed to draw up an Address to his Excellency the Gov^r presents
the same to this House which being read & approved of, is, as fol-
lows

To His Excellency Benedict Leonard Calvert Gov^r of the Province
of Maryland

The humble Address of the Upper & Lower houses of Assembly
May it please your Excellency

U. H. J.

The Necessity of advancing the Market for Our Staple of To-
bacco, by any method we can propose to Ourselves for that End, hath
obliged us to have Recourse to your Excellencys kindness & readi-
ness to contribute towards the Welfare of this Province, for your
good Offices in an Affair which so nearly concerns the Prosperity
of it
The Accounts & Inclinations from Virginia, of a disposition in
that Colony to concur with this Province in any Measures which
may be thought conducive to the Advantage of a trade, so much
alike in most Circumstances to both Countrys; have suggested to
us a mutual & friendly Correspondence between that Colony & this
Province, as the most probable Way to arrive at what We so much
desire
And these houses cannot, in Order to beget a necessary Confidence
between both Countrys, propose any Expedient so likely to succeed,
as to entreat your Excellency to interest yourself in this Affair, &
settle a mutual Intercourse & Correspondence between the Colony
of Virginia & this Province in such manner & by such Persons as
shall be judged by your Excellency, most proper for the Transaction
of an Affair of such extraordinary Consequence, as is, the General
Trade & Welfare of both Countrys

Subscribed by all the Members of both houses
Read a second Time the Bill Entituled an Act to prevent the rigor-
ous Prosecution on Sheriffs Testamentary & Deputy Commissary's
bonds, and Ordered to be thus Endorsed

By the Upper house of Assembly 5^th August 1729

Read a Second Time & will pass with the following Amendments
viz. the Words, to give Judgment, in 5^th Line of 2^d Side to be left

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