356 Assembly Proceedings, March 19, 1735/6-April 10, 1736.

U. H. J.

M^r Carols Bill by a Rejection of his Petition before the Bill was
brought into your House by Our Negative to the Bill, and by Our
Refusal to your propos'd Conference: Those Resolutions were
not hastily entered into, and will require (We imagine) as much
Consideration before they will be departed from
We cannot well avoid taking Notice of your speaking of this
Matter in One part of your Message as a subject of so great Im-
portance as to affect many of the Inhabitants by its Consequences,
and to so nearly concern the Usage and Constitution of this Prov-
ince, and yet in the Close of your Message you seem to find your
selves obliged to defer the Consideration thereof 'till the next Ses-
sion of Assembly for Want of time to consider it maturely
By such Expressions We hardly can think your house in Earnest
as to the Importance of M^r Carrols Bill in those several Particu-
lars; for We entertain too just a sense of the fidelity of your House
in the Discharge of your Duty to the Inhabitants of this Province
not to be perswaded, that No number of Days Weeks or Months
would prevent your dispatching what so nearly affects the Country
(if it is really so) without deferring it 'till another Session of As-
sembly
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.

The following Message is sent with the Journal of Accounts of
Michael Howard Esq^r

By the Upper House of Assembly 7 April 1736
Gentlemen

p. 58

Upon perusing the Journal of Accounts now before us we find no
Allowance made to us for the Arrearages of Our Claim as Councill
of State, the Dispute whereof upon looking into your Journall of
last Session you will find was only deferred to this in Consideration
that we were rather willing to suffer in Our private Interests than
enter into any Disputes at that time, the then Session being of very
long Continuance We have therefore now sent you down the Journall
in Order to insert the Allowances claimed by us without which it will
not pass
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.

Read the second time the Bill Entituled an Act for the Relief of
Isaac Tunney a languishing Prisoner in Talbot County Goal Wil-
liam Pratt in the same Goal Richard Standforth in Charles County
Goal & Samuel Steel in Queen Anns County Goal passed and sent by
George Plater Esq^r
A Message from the Lower house by M^r King & five Others