264 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2 j— Nov. 14, 1713.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

Petition of Stephen Rich of Queen Ann's County Carpenter
praying Naturalization of himself and Children Read and
Leave given to bring in a Bill as prayed and also of John
Lamee of Dorchester County for the same
Josias Crouch Petition Read and referred to the Committee
of Laws to examine the Petitioner's Pretensions & Allegations
and report their Opinion therein to the House

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Bill for Naturalization of John Lamee, Stephen Rich and
their Children Read the first Time and ordered a second
Reading to Morrow Morning

Committee of Laws enters the House and delivers the
following Report which being read and approved of by the
House was ordered to be entered as follows in Answer to the
Honble President's Speech Viz.

To the Honble Edward Lloyd Esq^{r
President of her Maj-
esty's Honble Council in Maryland and Commander in Chief
thereof}

We acknowledge ourselves abundantly obliged to return
you our hearty Thanks not only for your prudent Timing of
this Session but for the generous Regard you have at all
Times had for the Honour of her Majesty for the making easy
the Annual Charge of the Province and for the general Wel-
fare of the Inhabitants thereof: And as we have hitherto had
sufficient Reason to applaud the Ingenuity of your Adminis-
tration in making your Duty to her Majesty and Love to her
Subjects so eminently appear that none can accuse you of
Neglect in either we hope we shall not have less Reason so to
do at the End of this Session than heretofore we have had
We shall be very glad of the Opportunity of joining with you
and her Majesty's Honble Council in the dispatching the
Business of this Session and making it as short as the present
Exigencies of the Province will allow But as the very Meeting
of this General Assembly is a considerable Charge and the
Sitting thereof the greatest which we are to tax we hope we
shall do more before we part than barely tax that Charge our
Meeting has created. Her Majesty's Instructions are so well
remembered that we shall not propose the passing any Acts
that are not immediately necessary for the Peace and Welfare
of the Province and therefore we assure ourselves of the more
ready Concurrence of your Honour and her Majesty's Honble
Council here to those we shall propose that are By this Means
we hope the Session may be made both short and serviceable

We shall pay a due Regard to her Majesty's Order relating
to S^r Thomas Lawrence's Claims and shall examine the Jour-