112 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. J. R,
& U. S,

At a Council held at the Council Chamber on Wednesday
the 11th day of December, in the Fifteenth year of his Lord-
ship's Dominion Anno: Domini 1765.

Present as yesterday.
His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Address from the Lower House of Assembly.

To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor and
Commander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.

The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency
In Answer to your Message of last Night, We assure your
Excellency, We are very sensible of the bad Consequences of
large Bodies of People coming hither with a View to intimi-
date either Branch of the Legislature, or to lay them under
any Restraint. We shall therefore, immediately take every
Step in our Power to prevent any Measures that may have
such Tendency, to which End, We Pray your Excellency to lay
before us the Evidences you have received of the Arming or
Assembling of any Bodies of People with that Intention.
We are very sorry to find such an Imputation on a Member
of Our House, as that laid on Col^o Cresap, and We yet have
hopes your Excellency's Information in that Particular is
without just foundation, as it appears by Our Journals that he
has not attended the House since the 22^d of November, at
which time, We conclude, he left this Place, and when it could
not be foreseen that any Difficulties would arise between the
two Houses in relation to the Payment of any Public Claims.
As We should be very far from Countenancing in any of
our Members a Conduct Tending to Disturb the Public Peace
and deprive any Branch of the Legislature of that Freedom of

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Debating and Judging which is essential to the Constitution,
We think it in Justice due to the Public as well as to Col^o
Cresap, that this Charge against him should be examined and
set in a true Light, and therefore hope your Excellency will
Communicate to this House the Evidence on which the Charge
contained in your Message is founded,
11th December 1765
Read and assented to
By the Lower House of Assembly
Sign'd p order
Rob^t Lloyd Speaker.

D^r David Ross being sent for makes the following Depo-
sition.
D^r David Ross deposeth, and saith, that some time before
the I^st of last November, to wit about the 27^th or 28^th of last