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quence to our Country And therefore Deserves the Greatest Attention.
As your Excellency has been pleased to Mention and Communicate
to us two Queries, Sent to your Excellency by the Lords Commis-
sioners of Trade & Plantations & to Desire our Advice and Informa-
tion thereon; Nothing shall be wanting within our power & knowl-
edge, to make such a Representation to your Excellency, in Answer
to those Queries, as the important Relation of them to this Country
requires: But we beg leave to take Notice, that we conceive the
Officers of the Several Districts can Contribute by their Books and
Entrys to give more light into that Affair, than any Insight or Infor-
mation we can Expect from any otherway; And therefore We request
your Excellency will please to Direct such Entrys or so much of them
as may relate to the Trade of this Province to be laid before this
House; That we may be the better Enabled, to give a proper Satis-
faction to your Excellency in those points.
We are Obliged to your Excellency for your Earnest Recom-
mendation of such prudent and wise Proceedings as may Justifie a
Report from your Excellency which may be Creditable and Usefull to
this Province: And as We flatter ourselves that we have Acted in the
trust reposed in us in the best Manner we are Able; So We cannot
doubt of your Excellencys true Affection to this Province, in putting
our proceedings in such a Light, as may be pleasing to Our Superiors
at home, and Advantageous to the Good people here.
As We are Convinced, that the Security of the Blessings peculiar,
and so dear, to the Subjects of Great Britain, depend under God, on
the present happy Establishman in our most Gracious Sovereign King
George his August house, so we beg leave to Assure your Excellency
that whatever Disadvantages the people of Maryland may be Under,
by their Distance from their Mother Country, We are not Inferiour to
any of his Majesty's Subjects in our Zeal and Loyalty to his Royal
person, nor in the Sincerity of our wishes and prayers for his Reign-
ing Long and happily, and that the Sceptre of Great Britain may be
very Sway'd by one of his Majestys Royal Descendants; And we hope
and think that We have Always Demonstrated, a regardful Duty to
our Lord Proprietary, and his Government, becoming faithful Sub-
jects to our Sovereign, and Lovers of peace and Order, And that we
have not been wanting in Justice, and good Nature in our proceedings,
and your Excellencys handsome Exhortation to preserve in the Dis-
charge of our Dutys so necessary in themselves, & so likely to
Advance the prosperity of Maryland, Demands our most Gratefull
Acknowledgement.
Signed by Order of the House p John Mackall, Speaker.
August the 20th 1731 .
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