Letter of Transmission. xiii

On September 23, the Proprietary party won another victory, casting 27
votes in favor of making an allowance to Councillors in the Journal of Ac-
counts, while 22 votes were cast in opposition by Bond of St. Mary's, Wilson
and Harris of Kent, three delegates from Anne Arundel (Henry Hall voted
aye!), the delegates from Calvert, Charles and Talbot, Hooper of Dorchester,
Sheredine and Paca of Baltimore (John Hall and Buchanan voted aye),
Wootton and Addison of Prince George's (Sprigg voted aye!) and Bordley
of Annapolis. Upon the same day, the House indefinitely postponed (by assign-
ing the consideration of the subject to a day after the close of the session) the
provision for an appropriation for the purchase of arms, etc., by a vote of 32
to 18. The Proprietary forces were beaten, mustering only Barnes of
St. Mary's, three of the four members from Kent (Harris voted aye!), the
Somerset delegates, Thomas of Talbot, Ennalls of Dorchester, Colvill and
George of Cecil, Gordon of Annapolis, Wilkinson and Hopper of Queen Anne's
and Henry, Selby and Outten of Worcester. On the following day, Septem-
ber 24, a motion to reconsider this action was rejected by precisely the same
vote.

On September 24, the House, by the same vote, refused to reconsider this
decision. The House decided, by a vote of 24 to 21, to approve of a message
to the Upper House refusing to agree to its amendments to the Journal of
Accounts. The majority contained the Proprietary party and may have wished
to ward off a more hostile message, comprising the delegations from
St. Mary's, Somerset, and Cecil, the Greshams of Kent, Henry Hall of Anne
Arundel, Courts of Charles, Thomas of Talbot, Ennalls and Lecompte of
Dorchester, John Hall of Baltimore, Gordon of Annapolis, all the Queen
Anne's members except Pemberton, and Henry and Purnell of Worcester.

The last division of the Session followed immediately and resulted in a
determination, by a vote of 25 to 19, not to grant Bladen's request of a present
for the Six Nations. Those who would have made the present were Bond and
Barnes of St. Mary's, the Greshams of Kent, Henry Hall of Anne Arundel,
Courts of Charles, Stoughton, King and Dennis of Somerset, George and
Colvill of Cecil, Sheredine, Paca and John Hall of Baltimore, Sprigg of
Prince George's, Gordon of Annapolis, Pemberton and Hammond of Queen
Anne's and Henry of Worcester.

On that day, largely on account of the Militia Bill's failure, Gov. Bladen
prorogued the Assembly, whose record of 37 divisions far surpassed any pre-
vious Session.

A new Assembly was chosen and sat from March 12 to 29, 1745/6. This
was another " addled " session. Bladen told the members that he summoned