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the members in Maryland are appointed by the Proprietor, and in
the other colonies by the King, the end of their institution is the
same. That the King being father of his people, can have no
interest distinct from their's, is readily granted; as also, that there
are various perfections of will, as well as agency, in the King, not
belonging to any other man. As to the Lord-proprietor, he is, by
regal prerogative and grant, substituted Lord-proprietor of Mary-
land, and by the same royal dispensation vested with high authority,
jurisdiction, and power, though a subject under allegiance to the
King. As to the reflection, "That the Proprietor, being only a
subject, may, and is likely, to prosecute claims of his own private
emolument, subversive of their rights, and invasive of their prop-
erty," it is quite groundless, because it is at least as much the
Proprietor's interest that Maryland should flourish, as it is his

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Majesty's that Virginia should: and the only fair conclusion that
can be drawn from the circumstance of the Proprietor's being a
subject, is, that was his disposition quite the reverse of what it is,
he would not venture to take any step which he could not justify to
his Majesty; and that he would rather be apt to give up something of
even his rightful claims, than to offer to extend them, lest, by so
doing, he should expose himself to the resentment of an injured
people, and an offended sovereign, to whom he is accountable, and
to whom all appeals for redress of grievances are at any time
presentable.

Query 7th. Have not the delegates of the people of this Province,
almost in every session for many years past, sent to the Upper
House a bill to raise money for the support of an agent in London,
with a view of having their differences with the Proprietor brought
to a speedy determination before his Majesty in council? And have
not these bills always miscarried in the Upper House ? Why has the
Upper House rejected these bills, without giving any reasons for it,

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or proposing any amendment, since they assume a right to amend
even money bills ? Is it not clear, that they would rather chuse the
Province should languish in perpetual confusion, than that the
Proprietor should run the risk of being stripped of his usurpations ?
Answer. I reserve my answer to the above query, to the remarks
I shall make on the same head in the conclusion of this work.
Query 8th. Have not the delegates of the people sent to London
an address to his Majesty on his accession to the throne, and have
they not been unable to get it presented for want of an agent ?

Answer. If the Lower House would have joined with the
Governor and Upper House, in an Address to our most gracious
Sovereign on his accession, as had been done on similar occasions,
and as they were then invited to do; or if they would, on that
occasion, have transmitted a separate address to the King, under
cover to the Lord-proprietor, no doubt but his lordship would readily