The Upper House. 109

Preamble Whereas the very great shortness of the Crop now on the
Ground occasioned by the uncommon Drought this Summer renders
the Limitation of time of Shiping Tobacco very inconvenient to the
Trade of this Province and the word therefore to be put between it
& Enacted in the first line and sent by Edmund Jenings Esq^r
A Message from the Lower House with the Address by M^r Sprigg
and nine others

By the Lower House of Assembly 16^th August 1737

May it please your Honours
We return you the Address to his Majesty signed by Order of this
House by the Speaker
Signed p^r Order M Macnemara Ct L^o H.

To the Kings most Excellent Majesty
The humble Address of the Governor and the Upper and Lower
Houses of Assembly of the Province of Maryland.

May it please your Majesty
We Your Majestys most dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Gov-
ernor and the. members Of the upper & Lower Houses of Assembly
of the Province of Maryland most humbly presuming on your
Majestys constant Goodness and gracious Condescension to receive
the petitions & Complaints of all your Subjects do hope for your
Majestys Royal permission to represent the injurious treatm^t which
this Province in General & more, particularly your Majestys Sub-
jects residing on the northern Borders thereof of Late Suffered
from the Government & Inhabitants of the Province of Pennsyl-
vania

U. H. J.
Lib. No. 33

His late Majesty King Charles the first by his Royal Grant of
Letters Pattent under the Great seal & bearing date the 20^th day of
June in the eighth year of his Reign did grant unto Cecilius late
Lord Baltimore his heirs and assigns a tract of Land described by
and included within particular Limits metes and Bounds expressed
in the said Grant and which was by the said Grant erected into a
Province and stiled by the name oif Maryland by Virtue of which
Royal Grant the said Lord Baltimore immediately took Possession
thereof and which the present Lord Baltimore now our Lord Pro-
prietary claims and we must beg Leave further to lay before your
Majesty that the late William Penn Esq^r Claiming some Lands to
the Northward of and near to the said Province of Maryland now
called Pennsylvania under a Royal Grant from his late Majesty
King Charles the second & taking Advantage of the Bounds of Mary-
land not being Sufficiently known & fixed by Proper Land Marks
Both he and his Heirs have intruded and encroached on considerable

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