62 Assembly Proceedings, October 10-30, 1727.

L. H. J.

[unregarded or omit any] thing in our Power to Transmit [to
Posterity the same Liberties] we Derive from the [Laws of our
Mother Country] and the Ancient Rights [of British Subjects, it
would be] an Infatuation indeed [and such a Breach of our Duty
and] Treachery to those we [represent, as would make our Names]
& Memory Odius [and entail Infamy as well as Misery] upon our
[Descendants. But we purpose by the] Divine Permission [to avoid
these evils by a faithful and] Resolute Discharge [of our Duty, in
supporting his Lordships] Just Perogatives [and our just Rights
and confounding] as much as in us [lies the Machinations and Arti-
fices of] the Enemies of [us both] .....of the House
Jn^o Mackall, Speaker

James — Esq^r on his Motion is Admitted to Join in the Peti-
tion of Robert Dunn and others Relating to a Tract of Land Called
Arcadia Referr'd from Last Sessions and Ordered that the same
be heard Friday the 20^th Instant.
Resolved that the Assize Law be Revived w^th Amendments
The House Adjourns till to Morrow Morning Nine a Clock.

October 13

Friday October the 13^th 1727
The House Meets According to Adjournment.
Yesterdays Proceedings are read.
Resolved on the Motion of Col^o Gale that a Bill for Advancing
the Staple of Tob^o be brought in. On the Motion made the Ques-
tion was Put, whether a Bill for Distroying Squirrels shall be
brought in Whereby the severall Taxables shall be Obliged to bring
in Six or Eight Squirrels Heads p Poll.

p. 14

And Carried by Majority of Votes ...... Poll, and Ordered the
Bill
On the Motion ..... the Act for Distroying ........ with
Allowances ..... p head .... former .... And it ..... two ....
Esq^r Rousby.......Petitions Viz.......John Cooke, Lawrence [Hays]
[Samuel] Glover, and John Wood of.......John Peddicote & Chris:
Gardner of Baltemore County & Peter Brumfield of Prince Georges
County all Languishing Prisoners in the Goals of these Counties
with the following Endorsments thereon, Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Oct^r 13^th 1727.

Read and Refer'd to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly.
Sign'd p Ord^r Geo. Plater Cl. Up. Ho.

Which being read Leave is given to bring in a Bill for Relief of