Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1740. 233

Laws, their own solemn Agreement, the Safeguard of their
defenceless Country, and their Duty to Your Majesty in a
proper Care of this Part of your Dominions could not influence
to provide for Our common Safety, should notwithstanding
by their Address assure your Majesty "Of their being at all
times ready and willing in a legal manner to grant and raise
such Supplies as are necessary for the Defence and Preserva-
tion of the Province" This being the Point which We have
been endeavouring (tho' in vain) to prevail with the Lower
House to comply with, We most humbly hope Our Conduct
and Behaviour will be approved of in your Royal Wisdom as
perfectly agreeable to and consistent with the most unfeigned
and inviolable Duty and Affection of your Majesty's ever de-
voted and Loyal Subjects
M. T. Ward Presid
Benj^a Tasker
Geo: Plater
Edm: Jenings
Cha: Hammond
Levin Gale

Ordered that the Clerk of this Board give the rest of the
Gentlemen of the Council who were present at the last As-
sembly Notice of the said Address, that if they approve thereof
it may be signed by them, it being thought necessary that all
the Members of this Board sign the same, which Notice being
given by the said Clerk, they signed the same accordingly
Ordered that One hundred and fifty Copies of the Report
made the last Session of Assembly, to inspect the State of the
Fund raised by 3^d p hogshead on Tobacco exported for pur-
chasing Arms and Ammunition for the Defence of the Province,
by the Committee of the Upper House of Assembly, be printed.

Lib. C. B.

The honble Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r having delivered a
Letter directed to the Clerk of this Board and Endorsed
thereon 7^th August 1740 for his Lordships Service, and which
said Letter the Sheriff of Talbot County immediately delivered
to an Under Sheriff of Queen Anns County then present in
Talbot County as appears by the Sheriff of Talbot County his
Lre to the said Clerk, and which said Letter the Clerk informs
this Board, he did not receive until the 15^th of August, It is
ordered that the Sheriff of Queen Anns County with the be-
fore mentioned Under Sheriff attend this Board at their next
Meeting on 17^th of October to inform them of the Reason of
the Delay of the said Letter.

At a Council held at the House of his Excellency the Gov-
ernor in the City of Annapolis on Friday the 17^th Day of

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