214 Assembly Proceedings, March 20, 1734/5 - April 24, 1735.

U. H. J.
Lib. No. 33

tioned and for repaying the same into the said Office by the several
Treasurers of this Province thus Endorsed

By the Lower House of Assembly 23^th April 1735

Read the first and second time by an Especial Order & will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.

Read the first and second time by an especial order in this House
and with the following Amendments will pass, at the End of 2^d
Line of 3^d page insert, payable, and in 9^th line of the same page
instead of the Word, One, put Two
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

Sent by Philip Lee Esq^r
A Message from the Lower House by M^rs King & Sprigg with
an Address to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary

By the Lower House of Assembly 23^d April 1735
May it please your Honours.
We herewith send you an Address to the Lord Proprietor for
your perusal if your Honours concur therewith we shall take Care
to have the same Engrossed
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo. Ho.

To the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of Maryland
The humble Address of the Upper & Lower Houses of Assembly

May it please your Lordship

p. 366

We acknowledge with the deepest Sense of Gratitude that the
Agreement which your Lordship condescended to Enter into with
your Tenants to receive a Duty on Tobacco in Lieu of your Quit
Rents and Alienation Fees was a very great Ease to them and
nothing could have been more to their Advantage than a Con-
tinuance of that Agreement which your Lordship & our present
Governour on your behalf has been pleased to Offer and which the
Assembly through a Mistaken notion of the Countrys Interest re-
fused to accept of.
The Difficulty the People labour under now they are obliged to
pay mony according to the Tenour of their Grants far exceed what
could have been imagined or foreseen and must of Course increase
in proportion to the Scarcity of mony in the Country & will prove
very detrimental if not ruinous to many of the Inhabitants of this
Province.