144 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 1

1914. The work of editing and publishing the archives has
however, been continued without interruption during the past
two years with the result that there is now an indebtedness
outstanding for cash advanced and for unpaid bills contracted
on this account, for editing and printing, to the amount of
$1, 717. 58, as is more particularly shown in the financial state-
ment submitted herewith.

The volumes of the archives have been published since the
date of the last report, Volume 34, containing the proceedings
of the General Assembly from 1720 to 1723, published in
October, 1914, and Volume 35, containing the proceedings
of the General Assembly from 1724 to 1726. These two vol-
umes include all the sessions of the Assembly held during
the administration of Charles Calvert, Esquire, as Governor
of the Province of Maryland, his kinsman, Charles Calvert,
Lord Baltimore being the Proprietary.

Under the administration of Governor Calvert, the ani-
mosities that had been fomented between the Protestant and
Roman Catholic portions of the population during the adminis-
tration of Governor Hart, appear to have been allayed; but
new causes of dissensions arose which took the form of acri-
monious disputes and a spirit of hostility between the Upper
and Lower Houses of Assembly. The Upper House was com-
posed of the members of the Council who were appointed by the
Proprietary, while the members of the Lower House were
elected by the people. The elected delegates characterized the
members of the Upper House as instruments of the preroga-
tive and claimed for themselves the quality of representatives
of the people and defenders of their liberties. One of the
forms which the hostility of the Lower House took was its
refusal to continue the appropriation for the customary allow-
ances to the members of the Council when serving out of
Assembly time.

Differences arose over legislation to prevent the importa-
tion of convict labor into the Province, and over measures to
improve the quality of the tobacco crop, which had fallen to
a low condition with a corresponding decline in price. The
failure of the two Houses to agree upon a measure relating to
this subject was apparently due to mutual jealousy and sus-
picion.

A long dispute occurred between the Lower House and the
Lord Proprietary as to whether or not the Statute Law of
England was in force in Maryland. The Lower House vigor-
ously asserted the right of the Province to the benefit of such
laws, while the Proprietary maintained that they were not in