506 Assembly Proceedings, April 23-Jime 5, 1740.

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper

No. 735

desired that the proper Enquiry might be made into it, that Our
Innocence may appear to those who have been so far misled by the
Injustice you have done us, as to think us guilty of one of the great-
est Crimes; But we cant but with Concern observe you take but
little notice of it, which can proceed from no other Motive but a
very strong Inclination in you to fix an Odium upon us, tho you are
convinced in your own Consciences we do not deserve it; we are
therefore in order to Vindicate our own Characters obliged to call
upon you again to Examine the several Accounts of the Three
Pence per Hogshead for Arms, &c^a which we are well Assured has
not been dishonestly or unjustly disposed of and we shall not omit
any opportunity of calling upon you to this Purpose till the matter is
put in a clear Light
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.

Col Gale and Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r are sent to the Lower
House to acquaint the Speaker that His Excellency requires him and
the Rest of the Members of that House to attend him immediately
in the Upper House to see the Bill passed Both Houses this Session
receive the Assent
The whole House attend and by their Speaker present to His
Excellency the following Bill

p. 98

An Act for issuing and paying out of the Office of the Com-
missioners or Trustees for emitting Bills of Credit established by
Act of Assembly the sum of £2562 :10:0 Current money in Bills of
Credit to be applyed for the Encouragement of Persons voluntarily
enlisting themselves in his Majestys Service
Which was signed by his Excellency the Governor and assented
to on behalf of the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary and
sealed with His Lordships Greater Seal at Arms; after which his
Excellency makes the following Speech

Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly
As Your chearful Dispositions to contribute by the Bill, which I
have now passed into a Law for the forwarding his Majestys Ser-
vice, give me great Pleasure; I must own my Concern and Surprize
not less, to find that you, Gentlemen of the Lower House, should
be in the least backward to dispatch a Bill, which in all its Parts has
been agreed to by the Conferees of Both Houses, for raising a Fund
for Defence of this Province, and which you Your selves in the
Course of this Session have frequently acknowledged to be abso-
lutely necessary at this Juncture of Affairs; Perhaps the Reasons
you alledge for keeping back that Bill, will, at some time or another,
appear to be not so cogent as to deprive the Province of a necessary
Fund for It's Defence in these dangerous Times of War; Nor will
perhaps the Consequence of Your not passing this Bill, which will