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

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 46
p. 135

Post Meridiem

The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
An Address to the Governor was brought in, Read Approved, and
Ordered to be Ingrossed (See page 516.)
The Address to the Governor being Ingrossed the same was
Signed on Behalf and by Order of the House for the Honourable
Speaker
Col^o Hooper and Col^o Hanson Ordered to acquaint the Governor
this House hath prepared an Address to him and to know when and
where he will receive it They return and acquaint M^r Speaker the
Governor will receive it immediately in the Conference Chamber
Col^o Hanson and M^r Wootton Ordered to present the Address to
the Governor
George Plater and Edmund Jenings Esq^rs from the Upper House
acquaint M^r Speaker the Governor requires the Attendance of the
Lower House immediately in the Upper House
M^r Speaker left the Chair and with the rest of the Members of the
Lower House went to the Upper House, where his Excellency made
a Speech a Copy of which he did not deliver to M^r Speaker.
His Excellency acquainted the Gentlemen of the Lower House,
that by Advice of his Lordships Council of State he Prorogued this
Assembly until the second Tuesday of November next, and that they
were to take notice they were accordingly Prorogued
So endeth this first Session of Assembly this fifth day of June
in the twenty Sixth Year of the Dominion of Charles Absolute Lord
and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord
Baron of Baltimore; and In the Year of Our Lord God 1740
Test. M Macnemara Cl lo. ho.