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an Imposition on negroes & on several Sorts of Liquors imported
and also on Irish Servants to prevent the importing too great a Num-
ber of Irish Papists into this Province
There being several Bills past in Our House, which have lain a con-
siderable Time before your Honours, We request they may be sent
down, that if they shall pass in Your House they may be ordered
to be engrossed, and all possible Dispatch be given to the Business,
and this long Session brought to a speedy Conclusion
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

Read the aforegoing Bill the first time in this House and ordered
to lye on the Table
The following Message is sent by Philip Lee Esq^r

By the Upper House of Assembly 26 May 1740

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No. 735

Gentlemen
Several Bills sent from your House now lye on Our Table for a
second Reading, but We cannot think this House would act with that
Decency and Duty We owe to his Majesty and the Safety of this
Province, if any Bill should have a Passage in this House before a
Bill for raising a Fund for Arms &c for Defence of this Prov-
ince, and also a Bill for Encouragem^t of raising Forces for his
Majestys Service, agreeable to the heads agreed upon by the Con-
ferees of both Houses, and neither of which you have sent to us;
We doubt not of your Approbation of Our Conduct in this Par-
ticular, since Your House shewed a remarkable Earnestness in
forwarding two Bills for those Purposes at Our first Meeting, and
when the two Houses could not by Messages agree on what Bills
would be the most proper for such Ends, the Heads and Principal
Parts thereof have been settled to Our mutual Satisfaction by the
Conferees of both Houses; in Consequence of which we have daily
expected from your House Bills conformable to such heads, & there-
fore We hope you will be pleased to send Us such Bills that We
may by a quick Passage give a Preference to them which so much
relates to his Majesty in every Respect, before every Other Bill
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock.

p. 80

Tuesday Morning 27 May 1740

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as
Yesterday
A Message from the Lower House by Mess^rs Hooper and Ais-
quith

May 27