The Lower House. 235

Monday 16.^th Dec.^r 1765

The House met
All appeared as on Saturday
J. Ridout Esq.^r from the Upper House delivers to M^r Speaker
the Bill Entitled an Act for raising a Duty of 4.^d Str for every Hd^d
of Tobo exported &c for the Support of an Agent &c Indorsed
"By the Upper House of Assembly 16.^th Dec.^r 1765 Read the first
and second Time by especial Order and will not pass
Signed by Order UScott Cl Up. Ho

And the foll.^g Message Viz
By the Upper House of Assembly 16.^th Dec.^r 1765
Gentlemen
We should very willingly concur with you in the Enaction of a
Law for the Appointm.^t of an Agent [This message beginning thus is
printed in full in the Upper House journal, pp. p 1-95]

L. H. J.
Liber No. 53
Dec. 16

The House adjourns till two of the Clock

P M

The House met
M^r Tyler appeared in the House
The foll^g Ingrossed Bills Viz
An Ingrossed Bill Entitled An Act for the speedy and effectual
Publication of the Laws of this pvince and for the Encouragement
of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis Printer
And an Ingrossed Bill Ent.^d an Act for laying out Anew and
Seiling and ascertaining the future Bounds and Limits of St Lukes
Christ Church and S^t Johns Parishes in Queen Anns County and of
S.^t Pauls Parish lying partly in Queen Anns and partly in Talbot
County
were severally read and assented to and sent to the Upper House
with the Paper Bills thereof by J. Hollyday Esq..^r and Capt.ⁿ Ware
T. Johnson Esq.^r brings in the foll^g Message viz
By the Lower House of Assembly 16.^th Dec.^r 1765
May it please your Honours
In Answer to your Message of the 13^th Instant we are truly sorry
that the People have "been imposed upon by the malign^t Misrepre-
sentations of factious Men in whose Candour and Veracity they
have too much confided" and we most sincerely wish "that all men
may be fully informed upon a Subject which hath become the more
important from the gross Deceptions which have been practised and
the Discontents they have excited that they who have been injured by
Aspersion may have their Characters vindicated by a full Detection

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