14 Assembly Proceedings, July 7-29, 1740.

U. H. J.

Zeal to his Majesty and every part of his Service, that as the Passage
of this Bill into a Law must forthwith Answer the Royal Expecta-
tions, We shall immediately give it all imaginable Dispatch, without
further Considering what the Fate or Consequence of it may or may
not be hereafter, when his Majestys Expectations shall have been
fully answered by it Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

Read the first time the Bill Entituled an Act for the speedy &
effectual Publication of the Laws of this Province and for the En-
couragement of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis Printer and
Ordered to lye on the Table

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

July 16

Wednesday Morning 16 July 1740
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
The following Message is sent by Philip Lee Esq^r
By the Upper House of Assembly 16 July 1740
Gentlemen
In Answer to your Message of yesterday by Mess^rs Wootton and
Read we think proper to acquaint you that as the Enquiry We pro-
posed by Our Message the 30^th of May in the last Session is a Matter

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of Great Consequence and Importance to the Country, and as the
Inspection into the Affairs therein proposed will take up more time
than can be well spared during the Sitting of This or any Other
Assembly, We think the Matter in Our Message proposed may be
better transacted in the Interval of Assembly and have therefore ap-
pointed the honourable Col Levin Gale to join such Members of
Your House as you have or shall appoint in Order to make the said
Enquiry, and that they report the same to the next General Assembly
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

The following Bills being read the first time are ordered to lye on
the Table An Act for ascertaining the Gauge of Barrels for Pork
and Beef and the Nett Quantity of Pork and Beef to be contained in
Each Barrel An Act reviving An Act Entituled a Supplementary
Act to the Act Entituled an Act laying an Imposition on Negroes
and on several Sorts of Liquors imported and also on Irish Servants
to prevent the importing too great a Number of Irish Papists into
this Province, An Act reviving an Act of Assembly of this Province
Entituled An Act for the speedy Recovery of small Debts out of
Court before a single Justice of the Peace, An Act reviving [an Act]
Entituled an Act to prevent the injuring Harbours within this Prov-
ince and for repealing the Act therein mentioned An Act for reviving