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Day, Inspectors at Joppa and Fork Warehouses: The Petition of
the Inspectors at Emerson's Warehouse: The Petition of the Ves-
trymen and Others of Port-Tobacco Parish, Charles County; sever-
ally thus Indorsed, By the Upper House of Assembly, i4th April,
1762. Read and Referred to the Consideration of the Lower House
of Assembly.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock.
Post-Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment.
Mr. Edmondson and Mr. John Goldsborough appear in the House.
Mr. Robert Lloyd brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the
following Message: By the Lower House of Assembly 16^th April 1762
May it please your Honours,

Your Message of the I3th Instant, is Matter of real Concern to
us, as it deprives us of all Hopes, for the present, of coming to an
Agreement with your Honours, about the Manner of raising Sup-
plies for his Majesty's Service, and for defraying the Charges
heretofore incurred in the Defence and Protection of the Frontier
Inhabitants of this Province, and other necessary Purposes, which
we were willing to flatter ourselves, our Message, accompanying
the Bill for those Purposes, sent up to your Honours, would have
produced. Whatever we might fear, we were far from being satis-
fied, your Honours would not pass that Bill, or that you would, at
this Time, obstinately adhere to Objections made by the Upper
House against a Bill in 1758, and give the little Regard shewn (as
you are pleased to express it) by this House, to those Objections,
as a Reason for your being confirmed in an Opinion, that there was
no Probability of the two Houses now coming to any Agreement
upon the present Bill, and for your sending it down with a flat
Negative, when you might have observed, that in the forming it, the
Foundations for many of those Objections were removed.
It is a Maxim in Politics, almost universally adopted, that the
Representative is justified by the Instructions of his Constituent, in
acting even against his own Judgment, and we were willing to
entertain Hopes, that your Honours might be at present more at
large than heretofore, with respect to the Tax on the Proprietary
Estate, and the great Offices of the Government, which we take to
have been your real Objections to the Bill in 1758, to cover which,
most of the others were only thrown in as a Barrier. And we cannot
but express our Sorrow, that an occasional Waiver of our Rights
in respect to the Mode of Proceeding on Money Bills, intended
more speedily to bring about a Termination of the Differences that
have unhappily subsisted between your Honours and the late Lower
Houses on that Matter, instead of having the good Effect desired
by us, should serve only to put your Honours upon assuming a

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
April 15