192 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 28-Dec. 16, 1757.

U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
Dec. 15

Gentlemen
In Answer to your Message of this Day by Mess.^rs Tilghman and
Carroll, this House hath appointed Col : Lloyd and Col : Tasker to
join the Members named by your House to present the Address to

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the Governor together with the Petition to his Majesty the Repre-
sentation to the Lords of Trade, and the Address to the Lord Pro-
prietary
The following Message with the Bill for reducing the Allowances
of the Members of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, is
sent to the Lower House by Benedict Calvert Esq.
By the Upper House of Assembly 15. of Dec. 1757.
Gentlemen
We have returned you the Bill for reducing the Allowances of
the Members of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and
altho' a Reduction of the Allowances of the Provincial and County
Magistrates does not appear to us to be necessary, yet we have
agreed to it that a Bill which may be made in other Respects so
conducive to the Ease of the People, and the Dispatch of public
Business may not be lost. The Alterations we now offer to your
Amendments are so plainly calculated to advance the End professed
to be intended by this Bill, to correct the glaring Partialities which
some of your Propositions would introduce, and make the respective
Parts of it consistent, that we can no more doubt of your ready
Concurrence with them; than we can suppose that your Amend-
ments were proposed with a View of obliquely defeating a Law too
apparently beneficial to your Constituents to admit of an absolute
and direct Rejection
In the first enacting Clause you have offered by your Amend-
ments we propose that the Reduction may take Place from the
Beginning of the present Session, and continue for six Years, and
therefore instead of the Words from and after the End of this
Session for and during the Term of four Years, insert the following
Words /viz :^t/ during this Session of Assembly and for and during
the Term of six Years thereafter
To the Preamble introducing the next Clause add after the
Word Province the following Words, and by the Dispatch of public
Business, and in the enacting Part of this Clause instead of the
Word four, insert six, and in the same Manner alter the other Parts
of the Bill so that the Word six may stand in the Place of the

Word four

The next Alteration we offer is to your Amendment whereby 'tis
directed that the Members of both Houses, and the Magistrates
of the Provincial Court be paid annually, this Amendment we pro-
pose may be entirely left out or made more extensive; that other
Claimants upon the Public may not have Reason to complain that