508 Assembly Proceedings, May 15-June 8, 1751.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
May 16

in our Legislative or Private Capacities, anything in our Power to
promote such a Spirit it would be a most criminal breach of Our
Duty, and a Stuped Blindness to our own Interest and that of Our
Posterity
We have already derived great advantages from our Inspection
Law notwithstanding the dishonest artifices that have been used to
defeat some of the good ends proposed by it by rendering it less
Beneficial to the Country than it might be; But as these artifices are
now pretty well known, We flatter ourselves, that with the Assistance
and Concurrence of the other Branches of the Legislature, we shall
be able to put such an effectual Stop to them as well as deter those
who have been hitherto concerned from offending in the like manner
for the future and that when and as often as new Arts of Fraud
shall be Invented, new Laws will also be framed to Check & Punish
such offenders as act in opposition to the Interest of their Country ;
and the more effectually our Staple is guarded against Frauds the
better shall we be able to enter into the Consideration of and to
Carry into Execution such other Laws as may tend to advance the
Trade and prosperity of the Province.
We return You our unfeigned thanks for the Assurance you have
given Us of your hearty Concurrence and best assistance, in what
shall be undertaken for the Publick Good, and we think ourselves
under all the ties of honour Justice and Gratitude to Contribute
everything to make your Administration as Easy and agreeable to
yourself as we are sure it should be Advantagious to the Country
B: Tasker Presid.
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

May 17

Friday Morning the 17^th May 1751.
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
The Governor is pleased to communicate his Answer to the Ad-
dress of this house which answer is as follows.
Gentlemen of the Upper house of Assembly
I return you my hearty thanks for your kind Address, and the
favourable opinion you are Pleased to express of my Administration,
and shall always endeavour by my Actions to Merit the Continuance
of your Esteem
Sam: Ogle

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A Message from the Lower house by Mess^rs Barnes & Baxter
By the Lower house of Assembly 17 May 1751
May it Please your Honours
This House hath appointed Cot Colvill Major Barnes Col John
Henry Cap^t Bond and M^r Baxter a Committee from this house to