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By the Lower House of Assembly May 4th 1756
May it Please your Honours
Had your Honours been desirous of giving us an Opportunity
to make any amends to our Constituents for the heavy Charge this
Session will bring upon them, by the tedious length your Conduct
as to the three Bills for his Majestys Service and our Security sent
up to you has had so great a Share in Spinning it out to; you would
doubtless have given us a Short and explicit Answer to our last
Message. However still further to demonstrate that nothing shall
divert us from our wearied Endeavours to promote the Service of
our King and Provide for the Security of our distressed Country
we have appointed Philip fjammond Esqr Col :o Edward Tilghman
M :r Murdock Mr Mathew Tilghman and M :r Carroll Members of
this house to Confer immediately with the Gentlemen of your house
named in your Message on the Terms we proposed in our last And
this we are under a Necessity of repeating from the Ambiguity
of yours
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl: Lo: Ho
The following Message is sent to the Lower House by Col :o
Tasker
By the Upper house of Assembly May 4th 1756
Gentlemen
In Answer to your Message Just now sent us we hope we shall
give you no Cause to Complain of the length of it by entering into
useless altercations we think our last Message was Sufficiently clear
but if you had been pleased to point out: those ambiguities which
put you under the necessity of the Repetition you make we might
perhaps have endeavoured to remove them At present we have noth-
ing more to say to you than that we are ready to Confer with you
upon the Terms of that Message and no other
Signed p Order John Ross Cl: up: Ho.
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the afternoon
Eodem Die Post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning
The following Message is sent to the Lower house with the Journal
of Accounts by Samuel Chamberlaine Esq :r
By the Upper House of Assembly May 4th 1756
Gentlemen
In Answer to your Message with the Journal of Accounts we are
as far from Endeavouring to lay the People under any unnecessary
burthen as you can be we do not deny but the present Rent of the
Governor's house may be something more than what may have been
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