258 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739

U. H. J.
No. 734

That this House with a Firmness becoming an Upper House of
Assembly Rejected A Bill which not only was big with the most
Dangerous Consequences to every Individual Person in the Province
And Would render the Government and whole Country Ridiculous
and Contemptuous in the Eyes of Our neighbours, But also might
draw a Severe Censure from the Throne for putting One of his
Majestys Plantations under the Power of Certain Persons called
Trustees whose Trust was to Survive to Each Other and their
Persons irremoveable during the Continuance of the Law
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning nine of the Clock

June 6

Wednesday Morning 6 June 1739
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as yesterday
Read the second time the Bill Entituled an Act for the Relief of
Levin Hill Thomas Gough Ezekiel Orrick Samuel Deavor and
Thomas Somes languishing Prisoners in Ann Arundel County Goal
Sarah Butcher a languishing Prisoner in Dorchester County Goal
William Bigges a languishing Prisoner in St. Marys County Goal
James Ranton Peter Hyatt languishing Prisoners in Prince Georges
County Goal and William Gibson a languishing Prisoner in Queen
Anns County Goal, passed and sent by James Hollyday Esq^r
A Message from the Lower House by Mess^rs Denton and Courts

By the Lower House of Assembly 6 June 1739
May 1t please Your Honours
The Justice of Our Proceedings in the Matter mentioned in Our
Message of the 4^th Instant, we hope speaks it self, and the Observa-
tion you make with Regard to your Arguments against passing the
Bill for support of Government seems to us too ludicrous for a Sub-
ject of so great Importance, and calculated with the rest of your Mes-
sage rather to display a Peice of Wit, than to bring that Affair to
an amicable Conclusion
We cannot think his Lordship much obliged to you for your
Opinion that he has a Right to levy Money on Us, merely because we
had not shewn Reasons for denying it, even if that was the Case,
we presume an indifferent Judge would expect him to shew a Reason
for doing it.

p. 51

The Attack you suppose on the Government, in Order to deprive
them of a support they are in Possession of, is a Peice with the rest
of Your Message, if in private Life One Man violently took anothers
money from him, the Party wronged would be scarcely called the
Aggressor for endeavoring to recover it, or prevent his doing so
again: But perhaps in the Logick of an Upper House, as well as