The Lower House. 29

Post Meridiem.

The house met According to Adjournment

Richard Lee Esq^r from the Upper House Delivers to M.^r Speaker
the following Message Viz:t

By the Upper House of Assembly Sept:^r 27:^th 1765
Gentlemen

Understanding that the first Amendment proposed by this House
of the Ordinance for paying into the hands of a Committee of your
House the Sum of five hundred pounds Current Money by the
Treasurer of the Western Shore is an Obstruction to the passing
of that Ordinance and being desirous of Cultivating particularly on
this Occasion a good Correspondence between the two Houses We
have Agreed to wave that Amendment And to pass the Ordinance
without its Insertion shou'd you think fit to return it to us for that
purpose But what follows after the Word Treasurer in the 9:^th Line
of the Ordinance we expect will be left out According to our former
Proposition for the reason before given

Signed by Order U: Scott Clk Upper House

On reading the aforesaid Message this House Agrees to the
Alteration proposed to be made in the Ordinance and the same was
made Accordingly Ordered that it be Ingrossed

M.^r Hanson brings in and Delivers to M.^r Speaker the following
Ingrossed Ordinance ^Viz.t

An Ordinance for Applying the Sum of five hundred pounds Cur-
rent Money to the Purposes therein mentioned

It is Ordained by his Excellency and the Upper and Lower Houses
of Assembly that the Sum of five hundred pounds Current Money
be paid by the Treasurer of the Western Shore into the hands of
William Murdock Edward Tilghman and Thomas Ringgold Esq:^rs a
Committee Appointed by the Lower House of Assembly to meet the
Committees from the Houses of Representatives or Burgesses of the
several British Colonies on this Continent at the City of New York

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Sept. 27

on the first Tuesday of October next to consult together on the
present Circumstances of the Colonies and the Difficulties to which
they are and must be reduced by the Operation of the late Acts of
Parliament for levying Duties and Taxes on the Colonies and to
Consider of a General and United dutifull loyal and humble Repre-
sentation of their Condition to his Majesty and the Parliament and
to implore relief to be by them Applied in and towards the Expences
Attendant thereon and that they lay an Account of their Disburse-
ments before the General Assembly of this Province as soon as
Conveniently may be and that the Ballance if any be by them re-
turned into the hands of the Treasurer

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