176 Assembly Proceedings, March 20, 1734/5-April 24, 1735.

U. H. J.
Lib. No. 33

Present as in the morning except Col Ward
The following Message is Sent to the Lower House by Mich.
Howard Esq^r

By the Upper House of Assembly 4^th April 1735
Gentlemen
We now send to your house the Address to his Majesty Signed
by his Excellency the Governour & the President of this House to
be signed as your House thinks fit that the same may be sent by the
first opportunity in order to be presented to his Majesty
Signed p Order John Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

To the King's most Excellent Majesty
The humble Address of the Governour and the Upper and Lower
Houses of Assembly of the Province of Maryland.

Most gracious Sovereign
We your Majesty's most dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Gov-
ernour & the members of the Upper & Lower Houses of Assembly
of the Province of Maryland beg leave to embrace this the first op-
portunity we have had in Assembly since our perceiving the joyful
news of the marriage of the Princess Royal with his Serene High-
ness the Prince of Orange to congratulate Your most Sacred Ma-
jesty on so great & happy an Event
Altho our Situation in this remote Part of your Majesty's Do-

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minions prevented our earlier Address yet we beg Leave with all
Sincerity and Humility to Assure your Majesty that as we are in
our Loyalty to your Person and Attachment to your Family equal to
the best of your Subjects, so was our Joy on this important oc-
casion.
As the present happy Establishment in your August House and
the Blessing's which all your Subjects Enjoy under your Majesty's
most mild & Just Government are deserved under God from that
illustrious Hero King William the third of glorious Memory; a
Match of the Eldest Daughter of great Brittain with the chief
Branch of the House of Orange cannot but fill the Hearts of all your
faithful Subjects with the greatest Joy and the most grateful Sense
of your Majesty's Paternal Care and Goodness in taking every Step
which the most perfect humane Wisdom can Suggest to Secure them
and their latest Posterity the Enjoyment of the same felicity
May all your Majesty's Endeavours for the glory of your Royal
Person & Family the good of your People in particular & of mankind
in general be crowned With Success may your Reign be long & Pros-
perous and may the Imperial Scepter of Great Brittain be ever