460 Assembly Proceedings, April 23-June 5, 1740.

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No. 735

is it to be doubted but the motives which induce us to this now, will
equally operate on us or Our Successors if there be the same Neces-
sity at the Expiration of that Term
If your Honours shall think fit to accept of this Offer we shall pre-
pare a Bill for that purpose and without Loss of time proceed to
the Dispatch of the other Business, but if 'tis to be refused, and you
persist in your former Resolution We pray you will advise us there-
with, that an End may be put to Our Meeting and no more of the
Countrys money, or Our time, spent to no purpose.
We will trouble your Honours no farther about Roman Catho-
licks than by saying that if there is any Apprehension of Danger
from them, there are already many Laws in being against them,
and We doubt not of the Care of the Government in putting them in
Execution if there be Occasion; nor shall we be in the least backward
in joyning in any other Law that may be thought needful to prevent
any Danger from those People

p. 45

Your Honours We hope will excuse our not following you in every
particular of your long Message, the principal Parts We think are
answered and as the Supply we offer is more than heretofore has been
usually given, so we hope it will be sufficient with the Arms already
purchased and the Money in Bank, to enable us to defend Ourselves
against Roman Catholicks, Negroes, or any other Enemies: And
if you think that a Conference of buth Houses may conduce tu pro-
mote the Bill for Encouragement of his Majesty s Levies, or to
determine the certain Duration of that for Arms and Ammunition,
and the Sum necessary to be raised, we shall readily agree to it
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

May 15

Thursday morning 15 May 1740

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as
yesterday
Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as in
the Morning
Read the Petition of Charles Sewall the only surviving Exec. of
the last Will and Testament of Nicholas Sewall late of S^t Marys
County Esq^r deceased praying a Compensation may be made for a
Tract of Land called Derby lying on Choptank River containing
three thousand Acres taken away from his Testator by Act of As-
sembly Anno 1669 in favour of the Indians and which said Land is