220 Assembly Proceedings, July 18-August 5, 1721.

L. H. J.

In Answer to which the following Message is prepared,
Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly July the 26^th 1721.

May it Please Y^r Hon^rs. In Answer to your Message of
this Day by Coll. Addison This House being informed that
a true Copy of his Lordship's Speech attested by our Clerk
has been delivered your Clerk, are of Opinion that the Origi-
nal Speech ought to be Lodged in this House according to their
Ancient Custom & Previlege
Signed p Order. M. Jenifer Cler Lo Ho

And Sent to the Upper House by M^r Lee and M^r Benson,
They Return & say They have Delivered it.
The Petition of Isaac Johns is Read and referred till next
Sessions.
The Petition of Joseph Brown a Prisoner praying to be
set at Large being Read is Referred till Saturday next and
Ordered that M^r Thomas Sprigg have Notice thereof.

The House Adjourns till One of the Clock in the Afternoon

Post Meridiem.
The House meets According to Adjournment
M^r James Vanbebber late Sherif: of Cecil County According
to the Warrant against him Appears in the Custody of the
Sergeant of this House and alleging Nothing Matteriall in
his Excuse.

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The Question was put whether he shall be Fined or not.
Carried in the Negative by the Majority of Votes. Where-
upon its Ordered that he pay to the Sergeant twenty Shillings
besides his Expences with ten Shillings to the Clerk and five
Shillings to the Door Keeper and Ordered he be in Custody
till the same be paid.
Coll^o Addison and Coll^o Tilghman from the Upper House
deliver to M^r Speaker the following Message Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly July the 26^th 1721.

Gentlemen.
We are not willing to believe but that you have Read & in
some Measure Considered our Message of the 22^d Instant by
Coll^o Ward; tho' by your opinion of the 24^th in Relation
thereto, it might seem otherwise. We did not propose to you
the Enlargement of the Punishment but that the Punishm^t