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May it Please your Excellency

We return your Excellency our sincere & hearty thanks for your
very kind and obliging Speech at the Opening of this Session
We have already experienced the good Effect of our Inspection
Law, and are convinced, that Removing the few Prejudices to it,
and guarding against the arts that have been used, or may be in-
vented, to elude the force of it, will greatly contribute to establish
the happiness of our Country upon a lasting foundation; and there-
fore We assure you of Our utmost care and greatest Attention to
acomplish so desireable an End.
We acknowledge with the deepest sense of Gratitude, the Assur-
ance you have given Us, of your Sincere desire to promote our Hap-
piness in every respect, which we are fully satisfied, are the real
Sentiments of Your Heart, and therefore it is incumbent on Us
very Chearfully to concur with you in every Measure that may be
necessary for the Safety & defence of this Province
We are determined to avoid all unnecessary disputes, and to do
every thing in our Power to dispatch the publick Business which is
certainly Our duty, and the undoubted Interest of every individual
Man in Maryland
B Tasker President

Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
A Message from the Lower house by Mess^rs Bond & Henry
By the Lower house of Assembly 9 May 1750
May it please Your Honours
This house hath appointed Major Sheredine, Major Barnes Col
John Henry Captain Zachariah Bond and Col Colvill a Committee
from this house to inspect the Accounts and proceedings of the Com-
missioners for emitting Bills of Credit established by Act of Assem-
bly and desire your Honours to appoint One or more of the members
of your house to Joyn in the said Committee
Signed p Order M Macnemara G Lo H^o
Mess^rs Colvill & Hyland from the Lower house Attend with M^r
James Baxter one of the Members returned for Cecil County, to see
him Qualified who takes the several Oaths to the Government re-

U. H. J.

Liber No. 34
May 9
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quired by Law, repeats and subscribed the Abjuration and Test &
then withdraws
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

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