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

U. H. J.

Calvert
Paper

No. 735

By the Upper House of Assembly 16 May 1740
Gentlemen
As the Journals of the Upper House are now fairly transcribed
in five Books prepared for that purpose by the Clerk of this House,
we hope he will be allowed a reasonable Satisfaction for the same
as agreed to by Both Houses in 1735
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

Adjourned till to morrow Morning ten of the Clock.

May 17

Saturday Morning 17^th 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
A Message from the Lower House by M^rs Carrol & Matthews

p. 53

By the Lower House of Assembly 17 May 1740
May 1t please your Honours
We certainly should not have troubled your Honours with any
further Messages, which seem to answer no other Purpose than to
protract Our Time of sitting and run the People into immense
Charges without the least Prospect of Advantage to them, had not
there appeared some Mistakes or Misapprehensions in yours of the
fifteenth Instant by James Hollyday Esq^r which We could not well
pass over lest the so doing should be taken for a Submission to what
is far from our Thoughts, and cannot be gathered from any part of
our Conduct
There is it seems little probability of Your Honours and Our
Agreeing in many facts, if the Intercourse was to be Carried a much
greater Length, and therefore the whole must at last be left to the
Judgment of the World
It has been frequently mentioned by your Honours and not Gain-
said by this House, that there is a War with Spain and an impend-
ing one with France, that there has been a Conspiracy among some
negroes, and that there are some of the Romish Perswasion amongst
us, who have not the most Cordial Dispositions to our happy Estab-
lishments, We must therefore leave it to those who can Judge Im-
partially of the thing, whether our offering a Bill for raising Six
Pence per Hogshead for Purchasing Arms and Ammunition or any