452 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 5-9, 1714.

U. H. J.

on your parts to provide some useful Laws here to promote
It. I am advised that if certain convenient places of Landing
were appointed It would be of considerable use & Benefitt
that this method would lower the freight & give a ready dis-
patch to the shipping with your tob^os in good Condition for an
early Markett which is the Life of your Commerce

The publick would likewise reap a great Advantage from
hence by putting a Conclusion to the Sailors rowling of Tob^o
Hh^ds & in some places for many Miles This Custom is not
only destructive to navigation but a slavish Labour unworthy

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the native Liberty of Englishmen

The many Law Suits that are occasioned by the uncertainty
of the Bounds and Limitts of y^r Land calls for an immediate
Remedy to so great & growing an Evil

Providence in his bounty has blessed the Inhabitants of this
Province with a numerous Issue but It is a deplorable Reflec-
tion that no better Provision is made for the Education of
your youth, there being but a slender support for one School
on the Western and none on the Eastern Shoar of this so
wide a Bay

I do Earnestly recommend this Gentlemen to your Consid-
eration being a Duty incumbent upon you as you will acquitt
yourselves to God & the Queen like good Fathers & good
Subjects

Gentlemen of the Council and Gentlemen of the House of
Delegates, Nothing can facilitate the dispatch of the Affairs
before you this Session like a moderate proceeding in your
debates, And when It shall so happen that you dissent in your
opinions I make it my request that you express yourselves in
such a manner as will rather Evidence the Clearness of your
Judgment than the warmth of your resentment

The Speaker & Delegates return to their House

L^t Col Ward & three more came & presented Major John
Hawkins a Delegate lately Elected for Queen Ann's County,
Col James Maxwell one for Baltimore County M^r John Rousby
& M^r Alexander Parran for Calvert County M^r John Ham-
mond & M^r Alexander Wharfield two for Ann Arundel

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County & M^r W^m Blay one for Cecil County to be Qualifyed
by taking the usual Oaths to the Government which they did
& Subscribed to the Test & Abjuration oath

The Board adjourned till nine of the Clock to Morrow
Morning