288 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739.

	L. H. J.		For the Affirmative
	Lib. No. 45
		Mr Aisquith	Mr Calder	Collo Colvill
		Mr Harris	Mr Thomas	Mr Dulany
		Mr Hynson	Mr George	Capt Gordon

		The following Address was approved by the House and Ordered to be Ingrossed, Viz. To His Excy: Saml Ogle Esqr Governour of Maryland The Humble Address of the House of Delegates. May 1t please your Excellency. 1) We his Majesties most Dutifull and Loyal Liege Subjects the Delegates of the Freemen of the Province of Maryland, in Assembly convened beg leave to return your Excy our hearty thanks for the kind Declaration in your Speech at the opening of this Session We confess ourselves at a Loss to know certainly the Motives that Induced your Excellency to the Unprecedented Prorogation of the last Assembly, the Misunderstanding that then subsisted was due to a Misapprehension of one of his Lordships Council, in which had a Milder Medium been used this House would readily Undeceived the Gentlemen, or that Honourable Board. And we are not forgetfull of the Advances this House then made for the Dispatch of the Publick Business, by repeated Messages sent by their Honourable Members.
	p. 790	We are now again Willing and desirous to pass by the unparal- lelled Treatment of this House in the Person of their Honourable Speaker as also the manner of the then Prorogation and that at a time when the representative Body of the People were in the Execu- tion of their Duty, doing Justice to their Constituents and Honour to the Government, by Endeavouring to bring to light Offences and Offenders against both. We are very willing to put the mildest construction on these pro- ceedings as also the Subsequent dissolution of that Assembly to the great Charge and Trouble of his Majesties Liege Subjects the good People of Maryland. We cannot pass by in Silence a circumstance attending that time tho' Triffling and minute in it self by the Person, who altho then under the censure of the Delegates of the Freemen of Maryland for having grossly Reflected on that Body in Generall and some in particular Yet Immediately thereupon put into a place of Proffit and Trust in one of the Courts of Record. We Humbly hope there is some Honour and regard due to the Body of the People his Majesties Liege Subjects, and we are Sorry to see Merrit made of that which ought to Debase, and those mostly