The Upper House. 435

without having the same Publick Accounts laid before them which
were laid before the Committee of Accounts of the lower House,
I am therefore Ordered to Call upon you for them accordingly that
the Committee of the Upper House may proceed in their examination
And to prevent any mistake they have ordered me to deliver this
Message in Writing

Signed p Order of the Committee
John Davidson Clk

Upon our Clerks delivering the foregoing Message, he Reported
to us that the Clerk of the Committee of Accounts for the Lower
House of Assembly delivered him the following Answer; That
he was not permitted to deliver the Papers which he had applied
for, for want of which your Committee is not enabled to proceed
to a further Examination, All which We beg leave to Submit to the
Honourable House

Sam^l Chamberlaine
Bend^t Calvert
May 6.^th 1761

Which being Read and Approved of It was unanimously Resolved
that for the future no Accounts be allowed by this House upon the
Journal of Accounts unless the same, or a Copy thereof, with a
Copy of the Probate thereto if any attested to be a true Copy of Such
Accounts Probate if any by some Magistrate or by the Oath of the
Party taken before some Magistrate be laid before this House at the
same time that such Account, or a Copy thereof be laid before the
Committee of Accounts of the Lower House of Assembly And that
all Persons have due Notice hereof and conduct themselves ac-
cordingly it is hereby Ordered that M^r Jonas Green printer make
Publick the aforegoing Resolve by printing the same in his Six
Succeeding Gazettes
Signed p Order, John Ross Clk. Upr. Ho

The Journal of the Committee of Accounts is sent to the Lower
House thus Subscribed by John Ridout Esq^r 6 May 1761
Read and will not be assented to by the Upper house of Assembly
Signed p Order John Ross Clk. Up. Ho

The honourable Sam:^l Chamberlaine Esq^r and Benedict Calvert
Esq^r are sent to the Lower House to acquaint the speaker that his
Excellency requires his immediate Attendance with the Lower
House in the Council Room
The Lower House attend and his Excellency is pleased to conclude
this Convention with the following speech

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
May 6
p. 492