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

U. H. J.

Calvert
Paper
No. 735
June 4

Wednesday Morning 4 June 1740

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as
Yesterday
A Message from the Lower House by Mess^rs Henry and Wright

By the Lower House of Assembly 4 June 1740

p. 100

May 1t please Your Honours
We can with the greatest Sincerity assure your Honours that We
never had the least Intention to fix an Odium on you, or in any
manner to sully the Characters either of his Excellency, or any of
Your House, by what was said in Our Message of the ninth of June
last, concerning the 25Oo£ raised by the Three Pence p hh^d unac-
counted for, and are truly sorry that either the Governor or any of
you should take it in that Sense
It is clear by that Message, that the 2500£ was meant of the
Money raised before his Excellency came to the Government since
We at the same time mentioned the 2250:11:2 Sterling and
£34:13:7 3/4 Current Gold in Bank, in which last Sums may be in-
cluded the Ballance of the Money raised during his Administration,
and it would have been ridiculous as well as unjust in Us, if there
had been an Imbezlement (which by the Bye, the Words unaccounted
for cannot imply) to have charged his Excellency or your Honours
with it, since for any thing We know, none of that Money came into
Your Hands
By the Return of some of Our Members at the last Convention
we were in a State of Great Uncertainty as to the Application of
that Sum of Money, and upon the strictest Enquiry made into the
Affair by some who have been now appointed, We are still unsatis-
fyed therein; We presume that by inspecting the Minutes and Pro-
ceedings of Council in the Times when the Money was raised, the
Matter may be set in it's true Light, therefore We have appointed
Col Robert King Major Edward Sprigg Mess^rs Vachel Denton,
Tumor Wootton and Walter Smith to joyn such of Your Members
as you shall name, to examine into the State of that Fund, that
Justice may be done to the Country as well as to the Characters of
those concerned in laying it out.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

Mess^rs Matthews and Sheredine from the Lower House attend with
M^r Richard Gist a Member elected for Baltimore County in the
Room of M^r John Moale deceased, who takes the Oaths to the Gov-
ernment appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly of this Province,
and subscribes the Abjuration and Test and then withdrew
The following Message is sent by Col Hammond