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

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper

No. 735

might reasonably have expected a different answer than to be told
they were mentioned in order to destroy the Bill, when the manner of
the Proposal plainly shews the Contrary, and that Answers of this
Kind to Proposals made by one Branch of the Legislature to any
of the others will only serve to prevent that necessary and friendly
Intercourse that ought to Subsist between them, and may in many
things prove of ill Consequence to the Publick; However as Our
House, are willing to do every Thing that may Conduce as well to the
Safety and Security of the Province, as to the Dispatch of the Pub-
lick Business, and hasten the Sessions to a Conclusion, which has
already continued to a great Length, We are desired to acquaint you
that they agree to the Bill in the manner you have proposed with the
Addition of a Preamble setting forth the Reason of Increasing the
former Sum
All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of both
Houses
Signed p Order Tho^s Jennings Clk.

p. 79

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 Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Smith and Lloyd En-
tituled An Act reviving the supplementary Act to the Act laying
an Imposition on Negroes and on several Sorts of Liquors imported
and also on Irish Servants to prevent the importing too great a
Number of Irish Papists into this Province thus Endorsed

By the Lower House of Assembly 26 May 1740
Read the first time and ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M. Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.

By the Lower House of Assembly 26 May 1740
Read the second time by an Especial Order and will pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara CI Lo Ho.

and the following Message

By the Lower House of Assembly 26 May 1740
May 1t please Your Honours
We herewith send you a Bill Entituled An Act reviving an Act
Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled An Act laying