224 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739

U. H. J.
No. 734

To His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor & Commander
in Chief in & over the Province of Maryland.
The humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly

May 1t please Your Excellency
We were in Great Hopes that by the Dissolution of the last As-
sembly the necessity of entering into and troubling Your Excel-
lency with a Detail of the Occasion and Circumstances of the Mis-
understanding between the two Houses of that Assembly would have
ceased with the Being of the late Lower House; but the printed
Address of the present Lower House to your Excellency and your
Excellency and Your Answer to that Address leaving that Affair to
our Consideration, call upon us to make publick the true Rise and
Proceeding of that Difference and by a fair and candid State of the
whole Transaction (as far as this House was acquaintd with it) to
vindicate Ourselves from the Aspersions intended by the Address to
be imputed to the Conduct of this House in that matter.
This House having in the Convention of the last Assembly sent
one of its Members with a Message to the Lower House He returned
and Acquainted this House that instead of being admitted as
usual to deliver his Message He was desired to wait
This Treatment was so unsuitable to the Dignity of this House
and so far from the mutual Decency and Respect which ought to
be. most Carefully Preserved by the two Houses towards Each other
that we Could not suffer it without some Notice more Especially lest
our silence on such Occasions might sometime or other not only
draw on other Slights and Indignities but also be Urged as a Pre-
cedent for bearing or overlooking them therefore This House sent
the following Message with several Paper Bills by their Clerk to be
delivered to the Speaker as a Message from this House Viz. (See
page 163.)

p. 17

We humbly presume that Message and Messenger will most
plainly manifest the sincere Desire and Intention This House then
had to come to a right Understanding with the late Lower House on
this Subject, and at the same time to Avoid as much as they Could
in their Circumstances any Interruption to the publick Business or
Offence to the Lower House; No disrespectful or Aggravating Term
or Expression is made use of, but the reason of Altering Our Mes-
senger expressed as Unexceptionably as could be conceived in
Words: The Messenger sent to Communicate to the Lower House
the Sense This House had of the Indignity, was the Only Person
the Lower House Could with Reason and Justice expect, or this
House Consistently with its Dignity send There are but three Sorts
of Persons Viz. The members Clerk and Door Keeper Attendants
and under the immediate Controul and Command of this House: And