432 Assembly Proceedings, April 20-May 6, 1736.

U. H. J.

concurs with what Your Honours propose, and We now send the
Journals desiring your Concurrence thereto
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

And the Journal of Accounts thus subscribed

I^st May 1736
Read & assented to by the Lower house of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

Read & assented to by this house & Ordered to be so subscribed &
sent by Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

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Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning

Michael Howard Esq^r from the Committee appointed to draw
up an Address to the Right Honourable the L^d Proprietary relating
to the Importation of the Salt, brings in the following Address.
To the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of Maryland.
The humble Address of the Upper and Lower houses of Assembly
of that Province

May it please Your Lordship
We have taken into Consideration the Great Advantages which
the People of New England derive from the Exceptⁿ in the Statute
of the fifteenth of King Charles the second allowing the Importation
of European Salt directly thither from the Place of its Growth ;
and that the like Indulgence could it be obtained would be very
beneficial to his Majestys Subjects living in Maryland and enable
them to contribute to the further Encrease of the Trade and Navi-
gation of their Mother Country; And we humbly hope that since
the People of New York and Pensilvania have obtained that favour
that the same may be granted to us upon making a proper Appli-
cation for it; and the Consideration of Our steady Loyalty to Our
most Gracious Sovereign, Our firm Attachm^t to the present happy
Establishment in his August house, and the Advantage Our Staple
of Tobacco is to the Trade of Great Britain strengthen these Our
hopes
We need not represent to your Lordship that there is great
Plenty and Variety of Fish in Chesapeak Bay and in the great