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A Message from the Lower House by Coll^o Fendall

By the Lower House of Assembly 22^d May 1730
May it please your Honours
This house in Order to Expedite the Publick Affairs hath Resolved
to sit from Eight of the Clock in the forenoon until Twelve and

from Two in the Afternoon until Six during this Session, and desires

to know if the time proposed be agreeable to Your Honours
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Adjourned till Two of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Eodem Die Post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning

The Honourable Charles Calvert Esq. attended by the rest of the
Members of this House wait upon his Excellency the Governour
and present to him their Answer to His most favourable Speech to
both Houses of Assembly at the Opening of the Session which is as
follows Viz.

To His Excellency .Benedict Leonard Calvert Governour and
Commander in Chief in and Over the Province of Maryland.
The humble address of the Upper House of Assembly

U. H. J.

May it Please Your Excellency
The great Regard for the Publick Weal of this Province, which
Your Excellency is pleased to Express in Your kind Speech to both
Houses of Assembly, at the Opening of this Session is so very
agreeable to us, the Members of His Lordships Upper House of
Assembly, that We do in the most grateful manner acknowledge
the Just Sense We have of your Excellency's Wise and prudent
Conduct in Convening the Assembly at a Conjuncture, when the
Melancholly and languishing Circumstances of Our People, by the
low price of the Staple of Tobacco, and when our Neighbours of
Virginia are useing their greatest Efforts towards an Improvement
thereof, calls loudly upon the Legislature to fall upon proper ways
and means for preventing impending mischiefs, by concerting such
measures, in Relation to the Growth and Manufacture of Tobacco,
as may Effectually advance the Trade and Staple thereof in both
Colonies

We must confess ourselves to be under so much the greater
Obligation to Your Excellency at this time, that your great and sore
Affliction, upon the Death of your Brother our late President and
Commissary General, hath not Obstructed your Care and Solicitude

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