The Lower House. 201

Whereupon the Clerk was ordered to deliver the following
Answer
May 19^th 1738
S^r
I am ordered to acquaint you that the Honourable Lower House
of Assembly will not receive any Message from the Honourable
Upper House of Assembly by you as Clerk, Untill a Message is
returned by One or more Members thereof in answer to the Message
sent up to that Honourable House yesterday by Col Hooper and M^r
Courts by which the future Method of sending Messages by the
Clerks of either House may be adjusted between the two Houses
Signed p Order. M Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

To M^r John Ross Clerk of the Upper House of Assembly.
The Clerk acquainted M^r Speaker He told the Clerk of the Upper
House He had a Message to deliver from the Lower House, that the
Clerk of the Upper House acquainted him He had Orders to receive
no Messages. The Clerk of the Lower house thereupon told the
Clerk of the upper house he had orders to read it to him that he might
acquaint the upper house with the Contents of the Message and
began to read, the Clerk of the upper house returned without hear-
ing it.
The house adjourns

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Saturday Morning May the 20^th 1738
The House met according to adjournment
M^r Dulany M^r Hammond and Doctor Carroll were ordered to
prepare an Address to his Excy the Governour relating to the Com-
plaint against the Justices of Talbot County.
An ingrossed Bill entituled an Act for the Speedy and effectual
publication of the Laws of this Province and for the encouragement
of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis, Printer, read and assented
to, and sent to the Upper House by Major Sprigg & Col Colvill
The Justices of Talbot County being called before the House,
M^r Speaker acquainted them that you have been called before this
House, that you might have had the Opportunity of acquitting
yourselves from a Charge of having misdemeaned yourselves in
your Office as magistrates. Five of you have been charged with

May 20

denying your Jury of inquest the common Usage or Method by which
They could possibly make the Enquiries they are sworn to, a thing
unprecedented in this Province, and of the worst Consequence to all
the good people thereof, which thing you have confessed to be true.
You have also acknowledged that you have obliged the Unhappy
People of your Country who have been called to answer for some

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