266 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
November 17

as we apprehend to be real grievances to us and that our rights
Libertys and propertys will be inviolably preserved to us and trans-
mitted to our posterity
Your Lordships appointment of his Excellency Horatio Sharpe
Esquire to be our Governor is in every respect agreeable to us our
Expectations that in his Administration he will execute the great
Trust reposed in him to the honour of your Lordships Government
his own Credit and Satisfaction and the ease and advantage of your

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Lordships Tenants are not less than your Lordships nor more than
his affability and Benevolence and his Character of Integrity ability

and undoubted Attachment to the present happy Establishment

Deserve.
Your Lordships kind professions induce us humbly to request that
your Lordship will be pleased to lay before the Honourable the Board
of Trade the Representation herewith sent and to use your Lord-
ships Interest to Obtain an Act of parliament to allow the imme-
diate Importation of salt into this province from any part of Europe
in amity with his Majesty his heirs or Successors in Ships Owned
by any of his Majestys Subjects and navigated according to Law.
Such an Act will be not only of great Service to your Lordships
Tenants, but a means also of Seating the Western and Interior parts
of his Majestys Dominions here. Which was read and Assented to
and Signed by order of the House by the Honourable Speaker

The following Representation to the Lords of Trade and Plan-
tations Viz^t
To the Right Honourable the Lords of Trade & plantations
The Humble Representation of the House of Delegates of the
Province of Maryland.
That by the Charter of King Charles the first of pious Memory
by which this province was granted to Caecilius Calvert Lord Baron
of Baltimore in the following Clause Viz.^t
" Saving always unto us our heirs and Successors and to all the
" Subjects (of our Kingdom of England and Ireland) of us our
" heirs and Successors free Liberty of Fishing for sea Fish as well
" in sea Bays Inlets and Navigable Rivers as in the Harbours Bays
" and Creeks of the Province aforesaid and the priviledges of Salting
" and Drying their Fish on the Shore of the said province and for the
" same Cause to Cutt and take underwood or Twiggs there growing
" and to Build Cottages and Shades necessary in this behalf as they
" heretofore have or might reasonably have used, which Libertys and

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" priviledges nevertheless the Subjects aforesaid of us our heirs and
" Successors shall enjoy without any notable Damage or Injury to be
" done to the said now Lord Baltimore his heirs or Assigns or to the
" Dwellers and Inhabitants of the said province in the ports Creeks
" and Shores aforesaid and especially in the woods and Copses grow-