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upon mature consideration, you will agree to raise the supplies
wanted, by some such simple mode of taxation as hath been hereto-
fore pursued in this Province; so that the dispute, which hath indeed
already too long subsisted between the two Houses of Assembly,
may be at length happily terminated.
Signed per Order,
J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
Which was read, and thereupon ordered, That Mr. Edward Tilgh-
man, Mr. James Tilghman, Mr. Murdock, Mr. Hammond, Mr.
Ringgold, and Mr. Robert Lloyd, do prepare and bring in a message,
to be sent to the Upper House, in answer to the message of this day.
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Mr. Robert Lloyd brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker the fol-
lowing message, which was delivered to the Upper House on the
i6th, by Mr. Edward Tilghman, and Mr. J. J. Mackall.
May it please your Honours,
Your Message of the i3th instant, is matter of real concern to us,
as it deprives us of all hopes, for the present, of coming to an agree-
ment with your Honours, about the manner of raising supplies for
his Majesty's service, and for defraying the charges heretofore in-
curred in the defence and protection of the frontier inhabitants of
this Province, and other necessary purposes, which we were willing
to flatter ourselves, our message, accompanying the bill for those
purposes, sent up to your Honours, would have produced.
[This message from the Lower House to the Upper House, dated
April 16,th 1762, of which the beginning of the first paragraph is
printed above, is printed in full in, and occupies pages 64 to 72 of the
pamphlet. It will be found in Archives of Maryland, Vol. LVIII,
pages 127-130]
By the Upper House of Assembly, 24th April, 1762.
Gentlemen,
Your Message of the sixteenth instant is of so extraordinary a
nature, both in language and sentiment, and so unbecoming the rep-
resentatives of the people of Maryland, which, without the least
foundation, sets up for an unrivalled zeal for his Majesty's service,
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and arrogates to itself the rights and powers of a British House
of Commons, that, but for the salutary motive of obviating these
groundless pretensions, we most certainly should not have paid the
least regard to it.
[This lengthy message from the Upper House to the Lower House,
of which the first paragraph is printed above, occupies pages 72 to 94
of the printed pamphlet. It is not reprinted here as it has already
appeared in full in Archives of Maryland, Volume LVIII, pages
56-64]
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