84 Assembly Proceedings, July 7-29, 1740.

U. H. J.

As to the great Accumulation of the Countrys Charges which you
Complain'd of that must by all Candid and impartial men be imputed
to Yourselves, since it is wholly owing to your own Endeavours to
[delay] if not destroy the necessary Fund abovementioned
When you have given me a plain Answer to these things I shall
be better able to judge whether it may not be more conducive to the
Benefit of the People, to have an End put to the Session, than to
continue it longer in hopes of your doing something for the Benefit
of the People you represent which I sincerely wish you would do and
to which I shall contribute by every thing in my Power that is just
and reasonable Sam: Ogle
23^d July 1740

p. 93

To his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor of Maryland
The Humble Address of the House of Delegates of the 2^d Province
May it please your Excellency
Since the first and greatest part of the Message your Excellency
was pleased to send us on the 23^d July Instant consists chiefly in a
recital of former Addresses Messages and Answers, we shall not now
enter into the particulars of them, but as they are, or will soon be
published, we shall submit them to the Judgment of the World and
let them speak for themselves; But it being now no longer Secret
that the late and present Conduct of the Upper House with respect to
Our Expired Country Laws, is approved of, and Justified by your
Excellency, We must beg leave briefly to state the Case, and leave it
to Our Constituents and other Impartial Judges to determine in the
matter
The Law for raising 3^d p hh^d for purchasing Arms and Ammu-
nition revived in the year 1734 was then made to Continue for three
years and to the end of the next Session of Assembly after the three
years, a duration it never till then had from the time it was first past
in the year 1717. About the time those three years expired, the
renewm^t of that Law, with the like unlimited Continuance, was
strongly insisted on, and for want of this Houses Complyance in that
Point having found it Inconvenient, the Province was kept out of a
Session of Assembly for almost three years meerely to keep on foot
that and some other Favourite Laws of the Government Altho at the
same time the People laboured under many Aggrievances which
called loudly for redress, & there is reason enough to believe we
should not have had a Session to this time, had not something Inter-
vened immediately relating to his Majestys Service, and which could
not with Safety be denyed, when offered by this House: Those Laws
with many others which particularly concerned the General Utility
of the Province and Administration of Justice having by this Acci-
dent Expired, Another, till then unheard of Piece of Policy, was
Invented in Order to Oblige us to make such Laws, give what money,