490 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 4, 1744.

U.H.J.
June 1

Friday Morning 1 June 1744
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
A Message from the Lower house by Mess^rs Hall and Purnell
By the Lower House of Assembly I^st June 1744
May it please Your Honours
It being reported to this House by the Committee of Courts of
Justice, that by a List delivered to them there is lodged in the Pro-
vincial Office several Journals of the house of Delegates for the
Years 1664, 1666, 1671, 1676, 1681, 1683, 1686, 1688, 1692, 1697,
1699, 1701 and 1703, but that they are in loose Sheets And We are
informed there are several Journals of the house of Delegates in the
Possession of M^r Ross Clerk of the Council, which he said Benedict
Leonard Calvert Esq^r when Governor made him a present of, and
which he is willing to let M^r Macnemara Our Clerk have to tran-
scribe, And it appearing that those and several Journals of this
House in preceeding Assemblies; are not now upon Record in the
Assembly Office, We propose to Your Honours, that they may be
fairly transcribed by the Clerk of this House in a Book or Books well
and sufficiently bound for their more effectual Preservation; and
that he may be allowed a reasonable satisfaction for the service
when done; with which We desire Your Honours Concurrence and
that he may be enabled to collect and receive the same, on his giving
a Receipt to the Secretary of this Province, or to such other Person
demanding it, in whose Possession any of the Journals of this House
remain which are not recorded already in the Assembly Office, and
that after their being fairly transcribed into a Book or Books, he
be obliged to return them without Diminution
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
The following Message is sent by Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r
By the Upper House of Assembly I June 1744
Gentlemen
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to lay before Us
Your Address, in Answer to his Message recommending to You to
make a Provision for supplying the County with Arms and Ammu-
nition for its necessary Defence, in which Address you attempt to

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lay the Blame on this house for refusing to pass the Bill you sent up
this Session for raising four pence p Hogshead