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Such have been your Affectation of want of Comprehension your
Propension to Mistake, and Resolution to Misrepresent, that Repe-
tition however irksome, became necessary, and Prolixity disgust-
ing as it is unavoidable. It has been our Observance not to give
Offence, but we esteemed it to be as little our Duty as we feel it to
be our Inclination not to repel wanton Insult.
The Conferees Adjourn until 4 oClock in the Afternoon

Post Meridiem
The Conferees met according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning and John Beale Bordley Esq of the
Upper House
The Conferees of the Lower House deliver to those of the Upper
House the following.
We are instructed to inform your Honours that a particular
Answer to your illeberal Language cannot be productive of any
Publick Good; and not being disposed to attempt a Rivalship with
your Honours in the Talents for petulance and impertinent invective
the Lower House have ordered an End to be put to this Conference.
Whereupon the Conferees of the Upper House deliver to those of
the Lower House the following.
The Style of the Paper now delivered by the Conferees of the
Lower House is so consistent with the Spirit of their other Pro-
ceedings that we are not Surprised at it, and most willingly Consent
an End may be put to an Intercourse so extremely disagreeable.
So Ends this Conference, the 26.^th day of November Anno Domini
1771.
Signed by Order James Brooks Clk

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 26

Read the second Time in this House a Bill entitled "An Act for
Amending the Staple of Tobacco for preventing Frauds in His
Majestys Customs and for the Limitation of Officers Fees" and
will not Pass. So Endorsed and sent to the Lower House by Daniel
of Saint Thomas Jenifer Esquire.
Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 10 of the Clock

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Wednesday Morning November the [27.^th] 1771.
The House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday except Charles Hammond Esq
Mess.^rs Baxter and Thomas bring up a Bill entitled "An Act for
the Speedy and effectual Publication of the Laws of this Province
and for the Encouragement of Anne Catharine Green, of the City
of Annapolis Printer." Read the first and second Time in the Lower

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