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L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
May 4
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Tuesday Morning, 4th May, 1756.
The House met according to Adjournment: All the Members
appeared as Yesterday, except M.r Lloyd.
On reading and considering the Message from the Upper House
of Yesterday, Ordered, That M.r Hammond, Col. Edward Tilghman,
M.r Murdock, M.r Matthew Tilghman, and M.r Carroll, be Con-
ferees from the House, to join the Conferees in the said Message
appointed by the Upper House, to Confer on the Subject-Matter
proposed by this House.
M.r Carroll, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and delivers
to M.r Speaker the following Message, viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, May 4, 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 Majesty's 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 unwearied Endeavours to promote the
Service of our King, and provide for the Security of our distressed
Country, we have appointed Philip Hammond, Esq; Col. Edward
Tilghman, M.r Murdock, M.r Matthew 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 per Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.
Which was sent to the Upper House by Philip Hammond, Esq :
and M.r Murdock.
Col. Tasker, from the Upper House, delivers to M.r Speaker the
following Message, viz.
By the Upper House of Assembly, May 4, 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 nothing more to say, than, that we are ready to Confer with
you upon the Terms of that Message, and no other.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.
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