480 Assembly Proceedings, Mar. 28-May 13, 1758.

U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
April 18

Tuesday Morning 18. April 1758:
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday with Colo Hammond.
A Bill from the Lower House by Mess.^rs Govane and Dorsey,
entitled An aiding Supplementary Act to an Act, entitled, An Act
to enable the Justices of Baltimore County Court to assess and levy
on the taxable Inhabitants of S.^t George's Parish in that County a
Sum of Money for the Uses therein mentioned, thus endorsed.
By the Lower House of Assembly 11. April 1758.
Read the first time and ordered to lye on the Table.
Signed p. Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.

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By the Lower House of Assembly i8.^th April 1758:

Read the second Time and will pass
Signed p Order MMacnemara Cl Lo Ho.

Read the first Time in this House and ordered to lye on the Table
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 with the Bill, entitled, An Act for grant-
ing a Supply of £45000: for his Majesty's Service, and the more
immediate Defence and Security of the Frontier Inhabitants of this
Province, and emitting £35000. thereof in Bills of Credit, and raising
a Fund for sinking and replacing the Whole by an equal Assessment
on all Estates real & personal and lucrative Offices and Employments
is sent to the Lower House by Richard Lee Esq.^r
By the Upper House of Assembly 17. April 1758,
Gentlemen
The Concern you have been pleased to express in your Message
of the twelfth Instant at the Manner of our rejecting the Bills you
had sent up was unexpected by us considering the late Resolves of
the Lower House, that we had no Right but to pass or reject Money
Bills.
We have not indeed been convinced that your Priviledges could
be extended or our Rights abridged by such Resolves, but we chose
to avoid Disputes upon the Subject of Privilege, which are generally
handled with too much Acrimony to produce Conviction, or terminate
in a constitutional Settlement, and did not apprehend that our Con-
duct, which could not have been more conformable to your Resolves
had their Obligation been even admitted and acknowledged by
us, would have given Occasion for the Concern intimated in your
Message.