The Upper House. 17

Read the Petition of sundry the Inhabitants of Ann Arundell
County setting forth that the Owners of the Iron Manufactures, are
exempt from paying Levies for 80. Taxables, for four Years, and
also that the Public Roads are much damaged by their Carriages,
and the Owners of such Carriages indulged in the repairing the
Public-Roads.

Adjourned 'till to Morrow Morning 10. of the Clock

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April 26

Wednesday Morning 27. of April 1757.
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday

The following Message from the Lower House of Assembly by
Messieurs Lloyd and Govane, with the Bill, entitled, An Act for his
Majesty's Service, and the more' immediate Defence, and Security
of this Province.

By the Lower House of Assembly 27. April 1757.
May it please your Honours

[The message and bill are printed in full in Lower House Journal
pp. 74-76]

April 27

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 of Assembly
by Benedict Calvert Esq.^r

Gentlemen

In Answer to your Message with the Bill, we are glad to find that
you have thought it expedient to consent to many of our Amendments
proposed to that Bill, and although we cannot be of Opinion with
you that five hundred Men are more than are necessary for our
more immediate Defence, yet we shall condescend for the quicker
Dispatch in passing a Bill so necessary for his Majesty's Service,
not to insist on the first, and in Consequence of the second of our
Amendm.^ts the third we likewise are willing to pass over, but the
7.^th 8.^th 11.^th & fourteenth of the Amendments proposed we must
still insist on, which being made by you together with those you
have already agreed to, we shall be willing to pass it.

Adjourned 'till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

p. 160