26 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-May 28, 1737.

U. H. J.
Lib. No. 33

Read and Assented to by this house and Ordered to be so Sub-
scribed the Paper Bills so Endorsed are sent to the Lower house by
Geo: Plater Esq^r

The following Message with the Addresses is sent by James Holly-
day Esq^r

By the Upper house of Assembly 26 May 1737
Gentlemen
We now send to your house the Addresses to his Majesty and the
Prince of Wales Signed by his Excellency the Governor, and the
President of this house, to be signed as Your house thinks fitt that
the same may be sent by the first Opportunity in Order to be presented
to them.
Signed p^r Order John Ross Cl. Up. 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 dutyfull and Loyal Subjects the. Gov-
ernor and the Members of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly
of the Province of Maryland beg leave to Express our Deepest sense
of Gratitude for the many and repeated Blessings procured by your
Majesties Royal and Paternal Care for the Welfare and happiness
of all even the remotest of your Majesties Subjects.
We cannot reflect on your Majesties unwearied Endeavours for
the Repose and Tranquility of Europe in General, and of Your own
People in Particular without a Just Acknowledgement of your
Majesties great Good Will for Mankind, and the most tender regard
for Your Subjects: and We cannot feel the Effects of those Endeav-
ours by a happy Peace, without being Sensible what Dutifull returns
We Owe to Your Majesty, by whose Wise Councils the same was
most Auspiciously Compleated.

p. 477

But the late Instance of Your Majestys ever Watchfull Care and
Concern, not only for the present, but future Happiness and Pros-
perity of all your Majesties Dominions, In the Marriage of his Royal
Highness with a Princess of the illustrious House of Saxe Gotha,
fills us with the most Gratefull Joy and Exacts Our most Sincere and
Dutifull Wishes for the Preservation & Long Continuance of Your
Majesty's Life, which is so gloriously Employed in every Act that
renders the best of Kings most Amiable to the Dutifullest Subjects.
Sam: Ogle
Benj^a Tasker Pres^t