The Lower House. 357

in Prince Georges County near a Place called Garrison Landing was
Read and Assented to

L. H. J.

The Bill entituled an Act for dividing Prince Georges Parish in
Prince Georges County
The following Address viz.
To his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor of Maryland

The humble Address of the House of Delegates of the said
Province
May it please your Excellency
We his Majestys most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects the Delegates
of the Freemen of the Province of Maryland in Assembly convened
being desirous of doing every thing in our Power to promote that
kind and good understanding, which ought to subsist between the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary and our Constituents, his
Tenants in Maryland, have, upon Mature Consideration, concluded,
that putting his Lordship and the People on the like Terms as his
Lordships Noble Ancestors have been with theirs; as also his present
Lordship after his Restoration to this Government, and until the
Determination of the Acts in the Years 1732 and 1733
Wherefore and in order to perfect so desirable an End, We hum-
bly request, that Your Excellency will give Orders that his Lord-
ships Agent or the proper Officers may lay before this House an
Account of the neat Yearly Amount of his Lordships Land Rents
in the several Counties respectively the Collection of which we are
well assured is very expensive to his Lordship, in the manner the
same are now paid
Being Ingrossed was Read and Assented to and signed on Behalf
of the House by the Honourable Speaker
Col^o King and M^r Tasker were sent to acquaint his Excellency
that this House hath prepared an Address to him, and desires to
know when and where he will please to receive it they return, and
acquaint M^r Speaker the Governor will be ready to receive it in
the Conference Chamber
William Stoughton Esq^r and five more were sent to present the
Address
The Several Accounts sent from the Upper House and others re-
lating to the Indian Affair to be allowed in the Journal of Accounts
being under Consideration
The Question was put Whether the House shall take them now
into their Consideration or refer them to the next Session of
Assembly
[Resolved, That they be referred to the next Session of Assembly]
A Bill entituled an Act for encouraging the raising of Copper Ore
Erecting of a Stamping Mill and Copper Works and making of

The Ms.
omits " and
for erecting
a new one of
it. The
same was
Read the
Second
Time and
will pass.
Sent to the
Upper
House by
Mr. Wootton
and Mr.
Chesley."