The Lower House. 133

An ingrossed Bill entituled An additional supplementary Act to
the Act entituled, An Act for laying out and erecting a Town at a
Place called Long Point, on the West Side of North East River, in
Cecil County.
And an ingrossed Bill entituled A supplementary Act to the Act
entituled, An Act to enable Commissioners therein named to lay out
forty acres of Land into eighty Lots for a Town on Indian River
in Worcester County; as also forty acres of Land into eighty Lots
at the Head of Asseteague Creek, at a Place commonly called the
Trapp for a Town,
Were severally read and assented to, and sent to the Upper House,
with the Paper Bills, by M^r Bordley and M^r Harris
D^r Carroll brings in an Address to his Excellency which was read,
approved of, and ordered to be ingrossed
An ingrossed Bill entituled, A supplementary Act to the Act enti-
tuled, An Act appointing Commissioners for dividing St. Mary's
County into four Parishes, and to erect that Part of All Faith, and
King and Queen Parish lying in Charles County, into a distinct
Parish.
And an ingrossed Bill entituled, An Act for laying out the Town
a new commonly called Princess Anne Town in Somerset County.
Were severally read and assented to, and sent to the Upper House,
with the Paper Bills, by William Stoughton Esq^rc and Capt. Addison.
The following ingrdssed Address to his Excellency, viz.
To his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^re Governor of Maryland
The humble Address of the House of Delegates of the said
Province.
May it please your Excellency.
In your Message to this House, concerning an Equivalent in lieu
of his Lordship's Quit Rents, you have been pleased to tell us, that
it is signified that you may endeavour to settle such Composition on
such Terms as may be reasonable for his Lordship, easy to his Ten-
ants, and conducive to the Happiness of the whole Province.
We take leave to return your Excellency Thanks for your kind
Offices herein, and hope you will believe that it is our sincere Desire
(if it may be done) that such Composition should be equally reason-
able as well for his Lordship as the People we represent, and from
his kind Expressions we have Reason to expect he means the same.
The House of Delegates in May Session 1744, did, by an Address
to your Excellency, make a Proposal to be transmitted to his Lord-
ship on this Head, to which as we have no direct Answer, we are
desirous to know whether the same be acceptable, or if otherwise,
what his Lordship, or your Excellency for him, shall judge to be a
reasonable Composition; and as we conceive this must be grounded
on the neat Proceeds of the Quit Rents in the respective Counties,

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46