510 Assembly Proceedings, April 23-June 5, 1740.

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper

No. 735

And now Gentlemen nothing remains for me to do but to Pro-
rogue you I have therefore thought it proper by the Advice of His
Lordships Council of State, to Prorogue this Assembly to the first
Tuesday in November next and you are to take notice you are
Prorogued to that day accordingly.

p. 102

Thus endeth This Session of Assembly begun and held at the City
of Annapolis on Wednesday the 23^d day of April and ending the
fifth day of June following in the twenty Sixth year of his Lordships
Dominion and in the Thirteenth Year of his Majestys Reign Annoq
Domini 1740
Jn^o Ross Cl.

The following Addresses of the Lower House of Assembly pre-
sented to his Excellency this Session and the Governors Answers
thereto are Ordered here to be Entered

May 13

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly
As the present Situation of Our Affairs, requires the Government
to do every thing in its Power to put the Country into the best State
of Defence, I have with the Concurrence of the Council thought it
necessary to send immediately to Great Britain for a large quantity
of good and Serviceable Arms, with a proportionable Quantity of
Ammunition; but the present Laws for regulating the Militia not
being Sufficiently clear in their directions about distributing Our
Arms and Ammunition throughout the several Counties, the
Colonels not being willing or obliged to make themselves answer-
able for them, and there being no Place of any Strength or Security
in this City to lodge them in, I am very desirous of having your
Advice and Assistance in an Affair of so very great Importance to
the Province
Sam: Ogle

May 15

To his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor of Maryland
The humble Address of the House of Delegates of the said
Province

May 1t please your Excellency.
We are very well pleased to find by your Excellency's Message of
the Thirteenth Instant, that with the Concurrence of the Council, you
have sent for a large quantity of good and serviceable Arms with a
proportionable Quantity of Ammunition, not only as we presume the
People will be well Satisfied to find that the money raised upon them
for that purpose, is properly applied and that they may thereby be
put in a better State of Defence in Case of any Danger, but also
that their Delegates when those Arms and Ammunition are Im-