8 Assembly Proceedings, October 10-30, 1727.

U. H. J.

To which Message the following Answer is Prepared viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 11^th 1727

Gentlemen
Your Messuage this Day by Coll John Ward and Captain Rob-
ert Gordon signifyeing your Resolution of Sitting from nine a Clock
in the morning till four in the Afternoon for the Dispatch of Pub-
lick business is well approved of by this House.
Signed p Order Geo. Plater Cl Up Ho.

Sent by John Hall Esq^r
Captain John Rider and M^r Nicholas Goldsborough from the
Lower House present M^r Benjamin Pemberton a member Elected
for Talbott County in order for his Qualification
Who takes the several oaths to his Present Majesty appointed by
Law and Subscribes the oath of Abjuration and Test. And then
they withdrew.
Adjourned till to morrow Morning nine of the Clock

October 12

Thursday October the 12^th 1727

Met again according to Adjournment. Present as yesterday
with the addition of Philemon Lloyd Esq^r
Col^o William Holland attended by the rest of the members of
this house present to his Excellency the Governour their Answer to
his speech to both houses of Assembly in the Councill Room at the
opening of the Sessions which is as follows Viz.

p. 5

To his Excellency Benedict Leonard Calvert Governour and
Commander in chiefe in and over the Province of Maryland.
The Humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly May it
please your Excellency
We begg leave in the humblest manner to Return your Excellency
our most hearty thanks for your favourable Speech to both houses
at the opening of the Session of Assembly, wherein you have been
pleased to use such Pathetick Expressions in condoleing with us the
unparrelled loss we have Sustained by the Death of the best of
Kings our late renowned Sovereign of happy memory as have again
Revived the great Griefe we had before Conceived upon that most
melancholy occasion, and what indeed would have been Insupport-
able had it not been alievated by the happy Accession of his Royall
Successor our present most Gracious King George the Second to
the Throne of the Brittish Dominions; in whom We doubt not but