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upon in Leonard Town in S^t Marys County read the first and Second
time by an Especial order passed and Sent to the Up^r House by M^r
Key and M^r Jourdan.
An Ingrossed Bill Entituled an Act for the further Explaining
and Carrying into Execution an Act for laying out and Applying
£3500 Current money of Maryland to the uses therein mentioned
read and Assented to.
The Ingrossed Bill Entituled an Act for the more Effectual
punishment of Certain Offenders and for takeing from them the
Benefit of Clergy Sent to the Up^r House with the Paper Bills by M^r
Mathews and Captⁿ Woolford
The House Adjourns until 2 of the Clock in the afternoon

Post Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
The House Adjourns until to morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Saturday morning May 21^st 1737
The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
Col. Mackall is ordered to Join with the Other Members appointed
to make Enquiry into the Journals Concerning the former manner of
appointing Treasurers.
The Governour Communicated to the House the following answer
Viz.

May 21

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly.
I Have perused your Address Delivered to me yesterday together
with the Report of your Committee of Aggrievances and the Deposi-
tions annexed to the said Report and am very Sorry that any of his
Lordships faithful Tenants should have met with any Oppression or
Exactions in the payment of their Quit rents Contrary to his Lord-
ships Known Intention & Instructions I shall according to your
Desire give Directions that the persons you mention may be prose-
cuted according to Law and you may be Assured, that I shall at all
times be ready to Discountenance all Oppression and Injustice of
what Kind Soever in the. farmers and receivers but as I doubt not
of your Inclinations to do as much Justice to his Lordship as to his
Tenants I may reasonably Expect your House will Declare their
sense of the Obligation which the Tenants Lye under of readily
paying their Quit rents according to such rates, as his Lordship
may be willing to take foreign Gold and Silver at from the receivers
and Farmers and it is to be hoped that thereby the Tenants will
avoid and the Farmers and receivers will not be put under the neces-
sity of Collecting the Quit rents by any Rigorous Methods prescribed
by Law.
Sam: Ogle

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