174 Assembly Proceedings, May 3-23, 1738.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45
of this bill
dated May
18 are found
in Black
Book No. 4
Letters Nos.
60 and 62.
A petition
from, the
traders in
grain at the
head of the
Chesapeake
dated May 3
is in Black
Book No. 6
Letter
No. 51]
Vide
Black Book
No. 6 Letter
No. 42

Post Meridiem. The House met according to adjournment.
M^r Pemberton added to the Committee of Aggrievances and
Courts of Justice.
The Address to the Governor Viz.

To his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor of Maryland
The humble Address of the Lower House of Assembly.

May it please your Excellency
We his Majesty's most dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Repre-
sentatives of the Freeman of Maryland in Assembly convened, beg
leave to return your Excy our sincere thanks for your kind Speech
at the opening of this Session, and at the same time with hearts
full of grief to sympathize with you, in that great and general loss,
the Death of Our late most gracious Queen. We should be incon-
solable on this Melancholly Occasion, had we not those invaluable
Blessings, our royal and most gracious King and Sovereign with
Our Constitution in Church and State her pious and unparalelled
memory which shall always remain near and dear to Us. We shall
always bear a true regard to whatever Your Excy is pleased to
recommend to the Consideration of this House, and accordingly
consider the Act relating to the purchase of Arms and Ammunition
for the use of this province with the State of that Fund.
We are truly sollicitous for his Lordships happiness and rejoyce
at his influence over his Adversaries on all just Occasions, And we
are sorry that Our Neighbors should so far interest Themselves in
Matters foreign to them, as to prejudice Themselves & disturb
Others with whom they ought to live in the most friendly Manner,
and agreable to that mutual Harmony which ought to Subsist
betwixt all his Majestys Subjects.
If this house had any part in procuring an Amicable and peaceable
State on the Borders, betwixt this and the neighbouring province
They are highly pleased therewith, as They shall always be, when
they can Act or do any thing for the Good of this people or any
other his Majestys Subjects, and which shall always be their utmost

Ambition and true Endeavour to perform

We please ourselves with hopes, and that from his Lordships great
Goodness, that he will render the receipt of his Quit rents and
Alienation Fines as easie and commodious to the good People of
this province as the Nature of the Thing will admit of: and as from
his own great Abilitys and being seated at the Fountain of Knowl-
edge in Great Britain, he must know certainly the true Value of
foreign Gold and Silver he hath no doubt ordered them to be
received here accordingly. Great good and benevolent Actions are