388 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1722.

              Lib. x. Superscrib'd to his Excellency Charles Calvert Esqr Gov

                   ernor of Maryland

                    Upon reading the aforesaid Letter his Excellency ask'd the

                   Board whether they Concurred in opinion with Mr Attorney

                   General assuring them at the same time that he had nothing

                   of moment to lay before the Assembly and that the proroga

                   tion of the same would be a great ease to the province, in

                   answer to which this Board says that they do Concur with

                   Mr Attorney General in his Opinion, and that in pursuance

                   thereof his Excellency may prorogue the Assembly to another

                   day than that to which the Writ is returnable

                p. 43   And thereupon came to the following Resolutions V1Zt that

                   the 9th day of October being the second tuesday of that month

                   will be a proper time to prorogue the Assembly to

                    That Instructions be given to the Sheriffs of the respective

                   Counties of this province to give personall Notice to the

                   Members of the Assembly that they are then required to

                   meet to proceed on Business without delay and

                    That writs of Prorogation reciting the Writs of Election

                   issue immediately directed to the several Sheriffs of this

                   province and to be published by them in the most publick

                   manner and

                    That the writt of prorogation directed to the high Sheriff

                   of Ann Arundell County be read publickly to morrow in the

                   Council Chamber in the presence of his Excellency and such

                   members of the upper and Lower house as shall then be in

                   Town

                    To all which Resolutions his Excellency Concurs

                    His Excellency having communicated a paragraph of a

                   Letter from Colo Alexander Spotswood Governor of Virginia

                   signifying his intended Iourney to Albany in order to meet

                   the Indians there in Company with Sir William Keith Gov

                   ernor of Pennsylvania to adjust all differences between them

                   and to settle a lasting peace with said Indians and desiring

                   to know whether his Excellency woud meet him there to

                   those purposes and having desired the Opinion of this Board

                   thereon

                    In answer this Board say they are of Opinion that having

                   so lately renewed our former Treaties with the said Indians

                p. 44 and being in perfect peace and Amity with them it is no way

                   necessary that his Excellency should take so long a Iourney

                   but that his Excellency be desired to write to Colo Spotswood

                   and Sir William Keith to desire them to include this province

                   in the Treaties they shall make with the said Indians & to

                   assure them on our behalf that it is our firm Resolution to

                   fulfil every Article of the peace so lately renewed between us

                   and them