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when any of the English Statute Laws are found Convenient
and well adapted to your Circumstances you ought specially
to Enact them de novo, or such part of them as you think
proper for you: and happy would it be for you all to Conduct
Yourselves accordingly.
What Laws Rules Customs and Usages are Undoubted
certain, constantly adhered to and known among you, far
be it from me to Attempt to Alter but for the Comon good at
your own. request in Generall Assembly legally Convened any
more than I will Submit any Alteration to be made, by the
opinions or Resolutions of others.
In all your Debates let me recommend to you Gentlemen
of both Houses, Temper, Moderation and good will towards

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one another of which I perceive from your late Journalls
something was wanting, in the Dispute relating to the Al-
lowances due to the Councill of State; A Body of Men Chose
out of the Ablest & Worthyest amongst you, to serve the pub-
lick, and as such have found their Reward from the Countrey,
long before, and since the Act of Assembly, by which the
Twelve pence p hogshead was raised towards the maintaining
the Dignity and Station of my Lieutenant Governour, and
for such other uses as to me should seem meet; At the making
of which Act it was not so much as Surmised, that their Sup-
port should come from me, and had it been Expressed I would
have Dissented thereto: I know what I part with by that Act
as well as what I receive from it, yet am Contented with it,
since for the Common good I have allowed it, and hope I shall
not be drove by the Mistaken good husbandry of some to look
so far into my own Interest, as to shew Them their mistake
for fear of hurting others, whom they represent, The good
People of Maryland, whose -Welfare and Interest I have so
much at heart.
C. B.

After which his Hon^r the Governour was pleased to speak
to the Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses as follows

Gentlemen of both Houses of Assembly.
I am heartily Sorry his Lordships Speech did not come to
my hands sooner; Because I am perswaded, it must have pre-
vented all those Disputes about the Statutes of England and
the Great Expence those Disputes have Cost the Countrey.
It is very certain that many of those Statutes, not restrained
by words of Locall Limitation, would be prejudiciall to us
were they to take place here, some of which his Lordship

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