250 Assembly Proceedings, October 4-November 26, 1763.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 8

Present as Yesterday
A Message from the Lower House by Mess:^rs Murdock & Johnson
By the Lower House of Assembly 8.^th Nov:^r 1763
May it Please your Honours
We doubt not but the Justices are Sufficiently Qualifyed to do
the duty [The Message beginning thus is printed in full in the Lower
House journal pp. 360-362]

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Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the afternoon

Eodem Die Post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Three Bills from the Lower House of Assembly by Mess:^rs Gant &
Warren One Entituled A supplementary Act to the Act Entituled
an Act relating to the Standard of English Weights and Measures —
An Act for the more effectual securing of Orphans Estates — An
Additional supplementary Act to the Act Ent.^d An Act for quieting
Possessions Enrolling Conveyances and securing the Estates of
Purchasers — severally thus subscribed

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By the Lower House of Assembly 4th. November 1763
Read the first time and ordered to lye on the Table
By the Lower House of Assembly 8th. November 1763
Read the Second time and will Pass
signed p Order MMacnemara Clk. Lo. Ho.

Read the first time in this house and ordered to lye on the Table
The following Message is Sent by Benedict Calvert Esq.^r
By the Upper House of Assembly 8th. November 1763
Gentlemen

The Impracticability of retaining, in the Proposed Bill, the Regu-
lation of Money inserted in the present Inspection Law being per-
ceived by You, we hope that an Agreement between the two Houses
by which a Law so desirable to every Degree of People in this
Province from its confessed general Utility may be obtained is at no
great Distance The Proposition contained in your last Message is
liable to the Insurmountable objection of being an Infringement of
the Statute for if a direct and pointed violation of the words of it
can't be admitted, neither is it to be presumed, or reasonably Ex-
pected that the Sanction of a final assent will be given to a Bill
Studiously evasive of the Letter, and apparently opposite on the
most Cursery view, without the Aid of any Explication, to the
Spirit, & intention of the Act, The Proposition we made would, we
flattered ourselves, after being maturely considered in all its Conse-