242 Assembly Proceedings, March 12-March 29, 1745/6.

U.H.J.
Liber No. 34

The Conferees of the Lower House offered the Draught of an
Association to those of the Upper House who upon the Perusal
thereof observed that the Words viz^t being truly sensible of that
inestimable happiness which his Majestys Subjects enjoy in the
free and full Possession of their Religion Liberties and Properties
under his most sacred Majesty King George the second Also the
Words following Viz. " And Our Detestation of Popery and the
Slavish Principles of that Supertitious Religion " which were men-
tioned in an Association signed by the Governor and the Members
of the Upper House, were omitted, for want thereof They could not
agree to the Association before offered to their Consideration and
proposed the incerting the same Words as an Amendment.
Whereupon the Conferees of the Lower House resorted back
to the Lower House for their sense thereof which having obtained
returned and delivered the same in the manner following Viz. That
their House was ready to agree that the Words And Our Detesta-
tion of Popery and the Slavish Principles of that superstitious Re-

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ligion should be added thereto, thinking it a proper Amendment
they being only casually Omitted, but that they would not agree to
have the other Words viz^t being truly sensible of that inestimable
Happiness which his Majestys Subjects enjoy in the full and free
Possession of their Religion Liberties and Properties under his
most sacred Majesty King George the second to be made a Part
of the Association for that being immediately under the Gov^t of
the Right honble the Lord Baltimore the Proprietor of Maryland
and thereby labouring as they conceive under some Aggrievances by
means of which they apprehend themselves in some Measure de-
prived of that free and full Possession of their Civil Rights which
they acknowledge they should otherwise enjoy from his most Sacred
Majesty in Common with all other his most faithful Subjects; And
then proposed to the Conferees of the Upper House the following
Words viz^t " Being perswaded that nothing under God can so effec-
tually secure to the People of Great Britain and the Dominions
thereof the perfect Enjoyment of their Religious and Civil Rights
as the Continuance of his most Sacred Majesty and his Royal Family
upon the Throne " to be inserted instead of the Words objected to
by the Lower House. To which the Conferees of the Upper House
after taking the Sense of their House, to avoid further Delays or
Disputes have agreed the Words already mentioned to Wit Our
Detestation of Popery and the Slavish Principles of that supersti-
tious Religion being already agreed to be incerted in the Association
Upon which the form of an Association is drawn and annexed
hereto All which is submitted to the Consideration of both Houses

R King Edw^d Tilghman Daniel Dulany
Geo. Buchanan Philip Thomas Philip Hammond