Wednesday morning May 4th 1737
The House met according to Adjournment &ca
Richard Francis Esqr Delivers Mr Speaker the following Address
which was read Approved and ordered to be Ingrossed
To His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governour of Maryland
The Humble Address of the Lower House of Assembly
May it Please your Excellency.
We the Representatives of His Lordships Dutifull Tenants have
Received Divers Complaints of Exactions and Oppressions Com-
mitted by some of the Farmers and their receivers of his Lopps
Quit Rents by their undervaluing foreign Coins as well Silver as
Gold, as also by their receiving the said Coins at Various rates in the
Severall Counties; and as we are very greatfully Sensible of His
Lopps Declared Intentions of makeing the Collection of His rents
not only not Oppresive, but easey to his good Tenants and of your
Excys Constant Disposition to Discountenance any measures which
may be or seem Injurious to the Properties of the People of Mary-
land
We Therefore Presume Humbly to Entreat your Excy to give
Derectio to the proper Officers to lay before this House the Instruc-
tions His Lordship hath been pleased to give Concerning the Value
of such foreign Coins in order that this House may Judge whether
such Complaints are Justly made and in Hopes, In Case such Exac-
tions should be fully proved some Method by your Excys Kind
Interposition may be found out To prevent the same for the future.
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