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Colo Matthew Tilghman Ward from the Committee of Laws
delivers Mr Speaker an Answer to his Excys Speech which
being read is approved of and ordered to be entered as fol-
lows Viz.
To his Excellency the Governor.
May it please your Excy —
We the Delegates of this Province at this Time assembled
beg Leave to return your Excy our most hearty and unfeigned
Thanks for your most favourable Speech and humbly beg
Leave to join with your Excellency in expressing our Thanks
to Heaven for his Most Excellent Majesty King George's
peaceable Accession to the Throne of his Ancestors the most
happy Remedy that could alleviate the Grief we are truly
affected with for the Loss of the best of Queens.
Nothing can make us more truly sensible of the Greatness
of this Blessing than to see our Religion Laws and Liberties
secured in his Majesty's Royal Person and Issue which puts
an effectual Stop to those Insinuations that were secretly
dispersed thro' his Majesty's Dominions, That these invalu-
ble Advantages were in Danger than which nothing would
be more grievous to us and which now is entirely removed
by his Majesty's peaceable Possession of the Crown according
to the Settlement of the Succession in the Protestant Line to
which we shall strictly adhere and always endeavour to approve
ourselves a dutiful and Loyal People.
We shall apply ourselves with the utmost Diligence to the
Inspection of our Laws and to supply the Defects that shall
be found therein.
We humbly submit to your Excellency's Opinion that since
there has been an Act of Parliament lately made in Great
Britain for the encouraging the Tobacco Trade it will not now
be necessary for this House to enter upon any Thing of that
Nature in this Province.
And it is with the utmost Sense of Gratitude imaginable we
acknowledge that most gracious Condescension of the Crown
in parting with so considerable a Part of it's Revenue for our
Relief; nor can we forget the tender Care the Parliament of
Great Britain has expressed on our Behalf in that particular. We
are so fully satisfied how great a Benefit the encouraging the
making of Hemp would be to the Province that if the Act
made the second Day of April Anno Dom. 1706 for encourag-
ing the making of Hemp and Flax within this Province shall
not be found by experience, and further Observation sufficient
to that End, We shall very readily proceed to a further
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