The Upper House. 215

To avert which Evils we are obliged thus humbly to apply to your
Lordship & to beseech you to commiserate the unhappy Condition
to which your Tenants will certainly be reduced and to accept of a
Sum of Mony to be raised in the best and easiest manner It can be
by the Legislature in lieu of your Quit Rents and Alienation Fines,
and that your Lordship will be pleased to give Instructions to his
Excell^cy the Governour or Directions in such other manner as your
Lordship shall think fitt concerning this important Affair
The following message is sent to the Lower House with the Ad-
dress by Benjamin Tasker Esq^r

By the Upper House of Assembly 23^d April 1735
Gentlemen
Upon reading and considering the Address to the Right Honour-
able the Lord Proprietary sent up by your House We do approve of
the same and have sent it in Order to be Engrossed as proposed in
your Message of this Day by M^rs King and Sprigg
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

Read the first and second time by an especial Order the Bill pre-
pared in this House Entituled an Act concerning Tobacco passed,
and sent to the Lower House by Col Ward
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by M^rs Ward and

U. H. J.
Lib. No. 33

Hawkins Entituled an Act to Enable the Secretary of this Province
for the Time being to record and Enter up the Proceedings of the
Provincial Court which were Omitted to be done during the Con-
tinuance of Vachel Denton in the office of the said Clerk in the said
Court thus Subscribed

23^d April 1735
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.

Read & Assented to by this House & ordered to be so Subscribed
the Paper Bill so Endorsed is sent to the Lower House by George
Plater Esq^r
Adjourned until two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Merediem
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by M^rs Johnson and
Trippe Entituled an Act for taking out of the Office of the Comm^rs

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