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

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No. 735

that we may proceed to some other Business than sending Messages
backwards and forwards, we do tell you plainly, our unalterable
Resolution is, not to read any other Bill on our Table, before you
send us the Bill for Arms &c^a agreable to the Conferees Report;
from this fixed Determination we will not recede on any Considera-
tion whatever, and therefore every minute employed about Mes-
sages before that is sent to Us, will be triffling away our own Time
and the Countrys Money
Signed p order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

A Message from the Lower House by Mess^rs Lloyd and Sprigg.

By the Lower House of Assembly 2^d June 1740

May 1t please Your Honours
We think this Session too far spent to consider the Purport of your
Message of the 30^th of May last by Col Hammond and propose the
Consideration thereof may be referred to the next Meeting of
Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

The following Message is sent by Edmund Jenings Esq^r

p. 96

By the Upper House of Assembly 2^d June 1740
Gentlemen
As your House, in a Message to Ours the ninth of June last, in
Relation to the three pence p hogshead on Tobacco for Arms &c
alledged, that upwards of £2500 Sterling, raised by that Duty, was
unaccounted for in any manner. We desire you'l appoint some of
your Members to joyn some of Ours to examine into the State of that
Fund, and how the money raised thereby has been applied since the
Administration of the Government of the Province was last restored
to the Right honourable the Lord Proprietor, that Justice may be
done as well to the Country, as the Characters of those Gentlemen
concerned in laying out the said Money
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.

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
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock