The Upper House. 235

Read the first time in this House and Ordered to lie on the Table
A Bill from the Lower House entituled An Act continuing an
Act entituled an Act for the speedy Recovery of small Debts out of
Court before a single Justice of the Peace thus Endorsed
By the Lower House of Assembly 13 March 1745

Read the first Time and Ordered to lie on the Table
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman Cl Lo Ho.
By the Lower House of Assembly 15 March 1745
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman Cl Lo Ho.

Read the first Time in this House and Ordered to lie on the Table
Adjourned till Monday Morning ten of the Clock

U.H.J.
Liber No. 34

Monday Morning 17 March 1745
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present

March 17

'Benjamin Tasker Esq^r | Daniel Dulany Esq^r
Col^o George Plater | Col^o Edward Lloyd
The honble | Edmund Jenings Esq^r | Benjamin Young Esq^r
Col^o Charles Hammond | Col^o Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Philip Thomas Esq^r | Richard Lee Esq^r

Mess^rs Hall and Paca from the Lower House attend with M^r
George Buchanan a Member elected for Baltimore County and
M^r James John Mackall a Member elected for Calvert County in
Order to see them Qualified who take the Oaths to the Government
appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly repeat and subscribe the
Abjuration and then withdrew
His Excellency is pleased to Communicate his Answer to the
Address of this House in the following Words
Gentlemen of the Upper House of Assembly
I thank you for Your Address Your Professions of Duty to our
Sovereign and Detestation of that horrid Rebellion now carried on
against his Person and Crown are I am persvvaded very sincere and
as such give me the highest Satisfaction T Bladen

Col^o Plater and Col^o Hammond are sent to the Lower House to
acquaint the Speaker that his Excellency requires his Attendance
with the Lower House in the Council Chamber
The Speaker and the Lower House attend and his Excellency is
pleased to make the following Speech

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