382 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 21-Oct. 29, 1742.

L. H. J.

therein your Excellency will Order the several Naval Officers to
make Copies of the Orders by which they receive the same Duties
and of the Amount of the same respectively for two Years, past,
signifying under or by what Laws they receive the Duties aforesaid
and such Copies and Accounts Prove on their Corporal Oaths re-
spectively before some Provincial Justice and such Proofs Authenti-
cate under the Great Seal of this Province, and Order the same to be
delivered to the Honourable Speaker, M^r James Calder, M^r Philip
Hammond, Doctor Charles Carroll, M^r Henry Hall, M^r Thomas
Worthington, M^r John Magruder, M^r Turner Wootton and
M^r Osborn Sprigg or any two or three of them applying for the
same who are by this House Authorized to transmit the same to the
Agent employed by this House in Great Britain

M^r Wootton and M^r John Goldsborough sent to acquaint his
Excellency therewith and to desire to know when and where he will
be pleased to receive it they return and acquaint M^r Speaker the
Governor will be ready in an Hours time to receive it in the Confer-
ence Chamber
An Address to his Excellency the Governor was brought in Read
Approved & Ordered to be Ingrossed viz.
To his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esquire Governor of Maryland
The humble Address of the Delegates of the said Province
May it please your Excellency
In Answer to your Message to both Houses of Assembly of the

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24^th Instant sent to us by the Upper House and by many Letters and
Papers communicated to Us by your Excellency We presume the
uneasiness of the Six Nations of Indians proceeds from a Claim
they pretend to have to some Land in this Province for which they
peremptorily demand Satisfaction to be made them and that the
necessity of entring into any Treaty with them at this time arises
from the Claim and Demand aforesaid
The People of Maryland have paid the Proprietary Family and
now continue to pay his present Lordship very high Rates and Rents
for the Lands they purchase and hold Wherefore We think his
Lordship should be at the Charge arising on that Claim and likewise
of any Satisfaction to be made the said Indians thereon
However to demonstrate our good inclination for keeping up a
Peace and Friendship with those Nations, and in Compliance with
your Desire We have appointed Col^o Robert King and Doctor
Charles Carroll of this House to join with any Gentlemen of the
Upper House who shall be appointed to Negotiate that Affair
We have likewise agreed that A Sum not exceeding three hun-
dred Pounds Sterling be applied out of the Money now in Bank
arising by the three pence p hhd for Arms and Ammunition towards
the purchase of such Goods as may best Suit for a Present to the