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found eligible in our Mother Country or some of the Neighbouring
Colonies we will venture to pronounce it in many respects extremily
different in deed it cannot otherwise be Supposed that his Maj-
estys Attorney General would have held it to be absurd or un-
reasonable a Breach of Publick Faith and tending to subvert the
very Foundation of our Constitution, upon the whole we hope your
Excellency will excuse the Liberty we take in troubling you with
an Address to vindicate our Conduct & be convinced by what we have
offered in our Justification that if his Majesty's Expectations of
Assistance from this Province should be again disappointed (which
the Terms in which the Gentlemen of the Lower House have ex-
pressed themselves in the latter part of their Message leaves us little
room to doubt will be the case) it will be intirely owing to the per-
serveance of that House in Measures which nothing but a De-
termined Resolution to Evade a Compliance with his Majesty's
Requisitions or to deprive this House of their Constitutional Rights
and Share in the Legislature of this Province could have induced
them pertinaciously to adhere to
Benjamin Tasker President
An Engrossed Bill by Mess:rs Mackall and Waring, an Act to
prevent any future Loan of the Bills of Credit now in the Paper
Currency Office and to ease the Inhabitants of this Province in the
payment of Certain Taxes thus Subscribed
By the Lower House of Assembly 24. April 1762
Read and assented to
Signed p Order John. A Thomas Clk. Lo, Ho;
Maryland ss:s
At a Committee of Both Houses of Assembly appointed to Inspect
the Office and Proceedings of the Commissioners for emitting Bills
of Credit established by Act of Assembly
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