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By the lower House of Assembly August 26^th 1731
Read the second time and will pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Read the first time in this House and ordered to lye on the Table.
Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem.

This House met again According to Adjournm^t
Present as in the Morning.
A Message from the lower House by M^r Harris and M^r Johnson.

By the Lower House of Assembly 26^th August 1731
May it please Yo^r Honours
It Appears by the Votes of the House of Commons of the fifth
of May last, That it was resolved an Humble Address should be
presented to his Majestic, that he would be Graciously pleased to
give directions to the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to
prepare a representation, to be laid before the House of Commons,
in the next Session of Parliament of the State of His Majesties
Colonies & Plantations in America with respect to any Laws made,
Manufactures set Up & Trade carried on there, w^ch may Effect the
Trade Navigation & Manufactures of Great Brittain, and that the

U. H. J.

Same day a Motion was made & a Question Proposed that an Humble
Address should be presented to His Majestic, That he would be
Graciously pleased to give such Orders & Instructions to the severall
Govern^rs of His Colonies & plantations in America as His Maj^tie
should think Proper to prevent the setting up, or to Discourage the
Improvement, in any of the s^d Colonies of Woollen, Linnen, Iron and
other Manufactures w^ch may Interfere with & be prejudicial to the
Manufactures of Great Brittain.
Your Honours are Sensible that Tobacco is the only Staple of this
Province & the produce of that Comodity the only Dependance the
People have of getting Common Necessarys for themselves & their
. Familys from Great Brittain, That at present & for some Years past,
the produce of Tobacco has been so far from being Sufficient to fur-
nish People with Clothing even of the Coarsest sort, That great
Numbers of the Inhabitants might have gone Naked had they not
Manufactured a little Wooll & Flax, and by their Industry that way
made up in some Measure the Deficiency of the Necessary's w^ch their
Cropps of Tobacco would not Supply them wth This being well
known to Your Honours to be the present Case of Maryland, We
need use no Arguments to induce you to believe, that should any Act
of the Brittish Parliament be made to hinder the People here from
making such Necessarys for themselves as the fruits of their labour,

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