84 Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46

sions you make of Duty to his Majesty, and Affection for his Service :
This is the great Point you are met upon, and I must say, you have
already let so much Time go by, that you have no more to lose, if
you really mean to act like good Subjects, and avoid an odious Dis-
tinction that must inevitably be made between the Behaviour of a
Maryland Lower House of Assembly, and that of all the other
Colonies, who have been applied to in this important Business.
As for not giving you an Answer to your Address in Relation to the
Levy of one Pound of Tobacco per Poll, I have deferred purely in
respect to his Majesty's Service, which ought to have engrossed our
whole Attention, and which if it had, would have saved me the
Pain of answering an Address of so strange a nature as what you
have sent me this Day, which as I know to be the Production of a
few, so to a few, very few do I impute it. T. Bladen
15^th Aug. 1745
The House adjourns to 2 of the Clock

Post Meridiem
The House met according to Adjournment.
Col. Colvil, from the Committee appointed to inspect the Office
and Proceedings of the Commissioners for emitting Bills of Credit
established by Act of Assembly, delivers M^r Speaker the following

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Report, viz. (See page 7)
Which being read, the House concurs therewith.
The House adjourns 'til To-morrow Morning, 9 of the Clock.

August 17

Saturday Morning Aug. 17^th 1745.

The House met according to Adjournment. The Proceedings of
Yesterday were read.
A Petition of John Hussey, of Prince George's County, praying
Leave to bring in a Bill for recording a Deed of Bargain and Sale,
between the said John Hussey and a certain John Aubrey of Prince
William County in Virginia, for a Tract of Land called Yate's Addi-
tion, being read, The House appoints M^r Smith, M^r Sprigg, and
M^r Courts, a Committee to inquire into the Allegations contained
in the said Petition.
William Stoughton Esq^re from the Committee of Laws, brings in
a Bill, entituled An Act for raising the Sum of Pounds, Cur-
rent Money, and Sterling per Hogshead, for his Majesty's
Service towards supporting the Garrison of Louisburg on Cape
Breton, and for other Purposes therein mentioned: Which was read
the first Time, and ordered to lie on the Table.
The House adjourns 'til Monday Morning 9 of the Clock.