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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
March 19
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The Bill, entituled, An Act for the Adjournment and Continuance
of Queen-Anne's and Prince-George's County Courts, was Read a
second Time by especial Order, and will pass; and was sent to the
Upper House by Mr. Edward Tilghman and Mr. Wright.
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The following Message was sent to the Upper House by Mr. Ring-
gold and Mr. Hanson.
By the Lower House of Assembly, March 19th, 1762.
May it please your Honours,
This House being very sensible, that many Matters relative to the
Office and Proceedings of the Commissioners or Trustees for Emit-
ting Bills of Credit, established by Act of Assembly, and the Pay-
ments and Returns of other Officers into that Office, require as early
an Inspection as possible, we hope it will be looked upon as a sufficient
Excuse for repeating our Message of Yesterday, desiring your
Honours to appoint one or more Members of your House to join
the Members of this House, appointed for that Purpose.
Signed p Order, J. A. Thomas, Cl. Lo. Ho.
The House adjourns till the Morrow Morning 9 of the Clock.
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March 20
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Saturday, March 20, 1762.
The House met according to Adjournment: The Members were
called, and all appeared as Yesterday. The Proceedings were Read.
His Excellency communicated to Mr. Speaker, the following
Message: Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
I am obliged to you for your Promise, to take immediately into
your most serious Consideration, the Matters, which, in Obedience
to his Majesty's Commands, I have recommended to you, and shall
be much pleased, if your Conduct, during the Course of this Session,
evinces your Loyalty and Gratitude to the Best of Kings, and your
Readiness to comply with his Requisitions.
The Miscarriage of former Lower Houses, in any Attempts they
may have made towards the Establishment of an Agent in London,
to represent their Transactions to his Majesty and his Ministers, you
will not, I am in Hopes, impute to me; and if the Journals of the
House of Delegates, and the several Bills offered by them, to the
Upper House, may be supposed to contain a true Representation of
their Proceedings, I presume there cannot have been that great
Necessity which you seem to apprehend, for the Appointment of
such a Person, because those Journals have been regularly trans-
mitted for the Information of his Majesty's Ministers; and as the
Lower House Journal, for the Session held in March 1758, contained
the Arguments which had been urged by both Houses against, and in
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