234 Assembly Proceedings, March 12-March 29, 1745/6.

U.H.J.
Liber No. 34

To his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor and Commander
in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland
The humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly
May it please Your Excellency
We return You Our hearty Thanks for the Speech you was
pleased to make at the Opening of this Assembly, And as we are
well satisfied that nothing but the Safety of his Majestys Subjects
is the motive of Your Meeting us at this Season, so We assure You
of Our Disposition not only now, but at all times, to submit to
some Inconveniences for the sake of the Publick Good
We are very sensible of how great Importance It is to Us to pre-
serve the Fidelity and Friendship of the Six Nations of Indians
especially under Our present Circumstances; And We assure you
that We will chearfully concur in the most proper Measures to pre-
vent and disappoint the designs of Our Enemies, or any of their
Jesuitical Emissaries either amongst the Indians or else where
We shall gladly embrace every Occasion of manifesting Our
Duty and Zeal for his Majestys Service and Person, and to testify
Our Abhorrence and detestation of that Wicked and unnatural Re-
bellion raised in Great Britain in favour of a Popish Pretender
And as We are fully Convinced that We should be greatly want-
ing not only in Our Duty to his Majesty and the Publick but in the
Care of our own Safety should We leave these Indians under the
Temptations which their Necessities may induce them of Yielding
to the seducements of Our Enemies so We shall very readily join
in everything that may be proper to secure them to Our Interests
Which We think Ourselves Obliged to in good Policy as well as
Humanity Benj^a Tasker Pres^t
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

March 13

Saturday Morning 15 March 1745
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday

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A Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Courts and Tilghman
Entituled an Act continuing an Act entituled an Act for the Ad-
vancement of Justice thus endorsed
By the Lower House of Assembly 13 March 1745
Read the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman Cl Lo Ho.
By the Lower House of Assembly 15 March 1745
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman Cl Lo Ho.