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eating the said Report and Concurrence be presented to his
Excellency.
Signed by Order
27^th May 1766. Upton Scott Clk. Con.

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r attended by the Members of this
Board, presents to His Excellency the above Report and their
Address which follows in these Words :

To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.

The humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly.
May it please your Excellency

In Consequence of his Lordship's Instruction relative to the
Ordinary Licences bearing date the 7^th February 1765 being
Communicated to this Board by your Excellency a Committee
was appointed particularly to Consider the Subject thereof,
and to make a Report of their Opinion.
Upon the Report of the Committee we are to inform your
Excellency that the matter again fell under Our Considera-

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

tion, and that we are unanimously of Opinion his Lordship is
not intitled to the Ordinary Licences by Virtue of his Prerog-
ative. The Report and Proceeding thereon, which attend this
Address will shew to your Excellency the Grounds of Our
Opinion.
Permit us further to intimate to your Excellency our Appre-
hension that, if his Lordship should still insist upon his Claim
to the Ordinary Licences, upon which the above Instruction
is founded, it will very much tend to the Obstruction of Public
Business and be productive of very general Dissatisfaction.
As we have always been firm and Steady in the Support
of his Lordship's just Rights without being deterred by pop-
ular Clamour from holding the Conduct which becomes Our
Station, so we flatter Ourselves your Excellency will be per-
suaded nothing but a Conviction that his Lordship's Claim
cannot be supported upon the Principles of Our Constitution
hath induced us to make a Representation unfavourable to his
Pretension
27^th May 1766. Benjamin Tasker President

Ordered that the above Report and Address be Recorded in
the Council Proceedings and not in the Upper House Journal.

Read the following Letter from M^r Rich^d Tilghman jun^r
Clerk of Queen Anns County.

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