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

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 46

May 1t please your Excellency
Since We acquainted your Excellency by two Members of our
House this Morning that an Address was prepared to be presented
to your Excellency the Bill for Encouragement of his Majestys
Levies hath been sent to us passed by the Upper House, whereby the
Cause for that Address is in some measure removed
We therefore desire to be excused from presenting the said
Address
The Address to his Excellency being Ingrossed, and Signed by
the honourable Speaker on behalf and by Order of the House, Col^o
King and Col^o Hanson were Ordered to Present it
M^r Speaker communicated to the House his Excellencys Answer
to the Address Presented by Col^o King and Col^o Hanson viz.

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly.
Since I understand by your Address just now delivered to me by
Col^o King, that the other Address you intended to have presented
was in Relation to the Bill for encouragement of his Majestys Levies,
I have only to assure you, that I have no less Zeal for his Majestys
Service than the two Houses, and am very willing to pass the said
Bill as soon as it can be got ready for that Purpose
Sam Ogle

The Question was put, Whether the Bill for Arms &c^a shall be
read a second Time, before the Upper House sends down the Reviv-
ing and Re-enacting Bills now before them, with their usual Dura-
tion, or not.
Resolved in the Negative

For the Negative

M^r Waughop,

M^r Courts,

M^r Sheredine

Read,

King,

Mathews

Swann,

Stoughton

Caswell

Wilson,

Goldsborough

Edw^d Sprigg

Calder,

Edward Lloyd

Wootton

Carroll,

Robert Lloyd

Osborn Sprigg

Denton,

Thomas

Magruder

Henry Hall,

Ennalls

Pemberton

Smith,

Brannock

R. N. Wright

Weems,

Colvill

Joseph Hall,

Rumsey

Brome,

Pearce