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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
Mays
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each of the Counties in this Province; the Residue to be applied
to the defraying the Expences of the said College.
All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Hon-
ourable House.
Signed p Order, Richard Tilghman [Third] , Clerk.
Which was Read the first Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
Mr. Ringgold brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, a Bill, en-
tituled, An Act to establish a Market at the Market-House in Chester-
town, Kent County, and for the Regulation of the said Market;
Read the first Time, and Ordered to lie on the Table.
Mr. Govane appears in the House.
His Excellency communicated to Mr. Speaker the following
Message :
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Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
As an Answer to the former Part of your Saturday's Address,
concerning Mr. Darnall, the late Naval Officer of Patuxent District,
I take the Liberty to communicate to you (and I desire they may
be entered on your Journal) an Address that was presented to me
last Tuesday by the Gentlemen of the Upper House (together with
a Copy of the whole Report, of which you have been pleased to give
me an Extract) a Letter that I thereupon wrote to his Lordship's
Attorney-General, and his Answer, a Message which I sent to the
Gentlemen of the Upper House the 30th of last Month, and another
Address from them in Answer thereto; also Two Letters which I
afterwards wrote to his Lordship's Attorney-General, and the Com-
missioners of the Loan-Office, with a second Answer from the
Attorney-General; by which, I hope, you will be convinced, that
before I received your Address I had taken every Step in my Power
to prevent the Public's suffering Loss by Mr. Darnall's Misde-
meanor.
If you recur, Gentlemen, to those Addresses of the Lower House
to me, wherein Mr. Darnall was carpt at some Years ago, you will
perceive that he was only objected to on Account of his supposed
Attachment to the Principals of the Church of Rome notwithstand-
ing he had, by a previous Compliance with every Test proposed by the
Laws of Great-Britain and this Province, afforded a full Attestation
of his Conformity to our present happy Establishment both in
Church and State; but never did that House suggest to me, not the
least Room did they give me to suspect, that he wanted the Requisites
which you think ought, in all Promotions to Places of Profit and
Trust, to be the principal Recommendation to Favour.
He had been in Office many Years before I arrived in the Province,
and as far as I could learn, had executed it with Impartiality and
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