The Lower House. 367

Which Address was indorsed, read, approved, and ordered to be
ingrossed.
The Bill entituled, An Act for preventing the Evils occasioned
by Masters of Ships, Sloops or Other vessels their Officers Skippers
and Sailors dealing with or entertaining Servants or Slaves, was
read the second Time, and will pass.

The House adjourns until the Morrow Morning at 8 of the Clock.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
April 15
p. 231

Friday Morning, 16^th April, 1756.

The House met according to Adjournment: All the Members
appeared as Yesterday, except Col.^o John Henry and Major Hyland.
On reading and considering the Message from the Upper House
of Yesterday, Ordered, That an Answer be prepared thereto, and
that the Committee of Laws do prepare and bring in the same.
The Bill entituled, An Act for preventing the Evils occasioned by
Masters of Ships, Sloops or other Vessels their officers Skippers
and sailors dealing with or entertaining Servants or Slaves, was sent
to the Upper House by M.^r Reynolds and Capt. Dennis.
The House adjourns until 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
The following Message, viz.^t
By the Lower House of Assembly, 16^th April, 1756.
May it please your Honours,
We are too deeply sensible of the Distresses of our Frontier-
Inhabitants, and the Dangers which threaten his Majesty's American
Dominions in general, and too much concerned at the heavy Public
Debt which daily increases by our sitting here, to spend our Time
in a Method of Proceeding, we conceive, beneath the Dignity and
inconsistent with the Candour that ought to be preserved between
the Branches of the Legislature :
Therefore, in Answer to your unparliamentary Message of Yester-
day, wherein you say, you have mentioned only some of the material
objections you have to the Bill for granting a Supply of Forty
Thousand Pounds, for his Majesty's Service, and striking Thirty-
four Thousand and Fifteen Pounds Six Shillings thereof in Bills
of Credit, and raising a Fund for sinking the same, sent up to your
Honours for Concurrence on the 8th Day of this Instant, and that
they are the Observations you think necessary to make upon that
Bill at present: We shall just observe, that when your Honours shall
have taken Notice of, and particularized, all the Objections to and

April 16