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Gentlemen
Since I came upon the Hill I have heard that there has an unhappy
difference arose between the late Governor and a worthy Member of
your House whereby the Rights and Priviledges of your House are
concerned
Gentlemen
I can assure you I shall always have the greatest Regard to the
Priviledges of your House, and must request it as a Favour consid-
ering the Station that Gentleman did bear here and the circumstances
of his Affairs at this time, being just going to Embark for England,
and I shall take it as a favour done to myself if at this time you'll
let the Affair drop as to M^r Ogle, I do assure you there is nothing
in my Power that I would not grant to your House or to any par-
ticular Gentleman thereof
The House after due Deliberation thereupon Resolved that al-
though the Offence of the said Samuel Ogle Esq^r was an open Insult

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and an high Violation of the Rights and Priviledges of this House
yet at the especial Instance and Request of the Governor they would
drop the Affair as to M^r Ogle saving and Asserting the Right of the
House of Delegates at all times to call to an Account and Punish all
Persons who shall presume to Offer to them or any Member of their
House the least Affront or Indignity
Ordered that Col^o King M^r Philip Hammond M^r Stoughton
Col^o Colvil and M^r Calder prepare an Address to his Excellency
M^r Calder brings in an Address to his Excellency
Which was Read approved and Ordered to be Ingrossed
The House Adjourns until 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Post Meridiem

The House met according to Adjournment
M^r Calder delivers M^r Speaker the following Address Ingrossed
viz.
To his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor of Maryland

The humble Address of the House of Delegates
May it please your Excellency
As We were certainly Informed that Samuel Ogle Esq^r had sent
a Person to Challenge one of our Members, who had also been other-
wise greatly insulted through his Means, we could not in Justice to
the Rights and Priviledges of ourselves and those whom We repre-
sent pass that Affair over without taking Notice of it in the most
Public manner
But since your Excellency has been pleased to desire as a favour
to yourself that we would desist proceeding further as to M^r Ogle
who is just upon the point of leaving the Province, we in Compli-
ance to your Excellencys request have dropt the Affair as to him
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