80 Assembly Proceedings, July 7-29, 1740.

U.H.J
p. 83

But it is happy for the People of this Province, that their Rights
5 and Liberties are not left at the Mercy of any one part of the Legis-
lature, who are severally, by the Frame of Our Constitution, reason-
able and proper Checks upon one Another
In the present Case I am now taking notice of, it is very certain that
the Government has a legal and necessary Check upon the Lower
House of Assembly, as It can, upon their sending any of their mem-
bers to a new Election without any legal Cause, do him Justice by
putting the whole House in the same condition by Ordering a Gen-
eral Re Election, as it has a legal and indisputable Right to do, And
indeed it is a Right so necessary to be executed that no Governor can
be thought to do his Duty to his Majesty, or the Lord Proprietary, or
to take a proper care of the just Liberties of the People if he does not
put it in Execution, as often as a proper Occasion Offers for it, And
I make no Doubt but your House expected I should have thought
my self obliged to have dissolved you immediately upon the present
Occasion, however as I have a sincere Desire to do everything in my
Power for the real Advantage and Satisfaction of the good People
of this Province and am unwilling that any honest and well meaning
men should be in any Danger of being led away with notions of the
Assembly being dissolved out of any private or sinister view, or to
prevent in any manner the hearing of any of their complaints either
here, or before the Proprietor or finally before his Majesty at home
I have thought it proper to pass over this Occasion and only to Pro-
rogue you as usual, you are therefore by the Advice of his Lordships
Council of State prorogued to the first Tuesday in November next,
and you are to take notice you are pro[ro]gued to that day accord-
ingly.
Thus Endeth This Session of Assembly begun and held at the City
of Annapolis on Monday the seventh Day of July and ending the
29^th Day of the same Month in the twenty sixth year of his Lord-
ships Dominion and in the thirteenth year of his Majestys Reign
Annoq Domini 1740 Jn^o Ross Cl.

P. 89
[These
appended
papers are
not found
in U.H.J.]

To his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r
Governor of Maryland
The humble Address of the House of Delegates of said Province
May it please your Excellency
Immediately after we had dispatched the Bills for his Majestys
Service which your Excellency Recommended to have the first place
in Our proceedings we sent to the Upper House Bills for reviving
several Laws which had expired at the last Session of Assembly and
which are generally acknowledged to be necessary for the Welfare
of the People
Most of those Acts having been in Use many years and often
reenacted cannot in our Apprehensions require much time for Con-