586 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 4, 1744.

L. H. J.

An Act for the Naturalization of James Richard of Baltimore
County

To the Honourable Speaker £21..0..0
To the Clerk 2..0..0

An Act empowering Mary Stokes, Widow and Executrix of

Humphry Wells Stokes, late of Baltimore County, Gentleman De-
ceased, to sell and Dispose of the Lands and Tenements therein men-
tioned, to be sold for the uses and purposes thereby directed.
To the Honourable Speaker £2..0..0
To the Clerk 1..0..0

An Act to enable Samuel Wilson, Executor of Margaret Lindow,
to Convey Certain Lands to David Wilson
To the Honourable Speaker £1.. 0..0
To the Clerk 0..10..0

An Act to Remedy some Defects in an Indenture of Bargain and
Sale made and Executed by Michael Curtis and Sarah his wife, late
of S^t Mary's County Deceased, and Charles Carroll Esq^r late of the
City of Annapolis Deceased.
To the Honourable Speaker £8..0..0
To the Clerk 4..0..0
M^r Speaker communicated to the House the following Message
from the Governor, Viz.

Gentlemen,
That you may be left without any Excuse, for want of Proper
Admonition, to provide for the Defence of your Country, in this
Critical and Dangerous Juncture, I think proper to lay before you a
paragraph of a Letter from M^r John Galloway, dated the 28^th of
last Month, from Philadelphia in his own Words.
" The Assembly of this Province, hath at this critical time,
thought proper to petition the Governor, to attend the Treaty with a
present of 300^l to be laid out in Goods, in hopes thereby to improve
the good understanding that has always subsisted between this prov-
ince and the Indians, and prevent the ffrench taking them off; which
there is no doubt made here, but they will attempt to do,"
As I am in hopes that the Example of a neighbouring Colony,
who from their Principles of Religion, have long persisted in refus-
ing to Provide for the Defence of their Country, and are now so
thoroughly convinced of their Danger, that they appear to be actu-
ated by the Principles of Self-preservation, may have some effect on
you; but whether the Representatives of the People of Maryland
will Act upon the same Principles, or rather Chuse to distinguish
themselves from all the neighbouring Colonies, and indeed the rest
of Mankind, by neglecting the necessary means of their own Safety,
I leave for the last time to your Judgment and Consciences.
T. Bladen