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Ordered, That Col. Harrison and Mr. Handy, do 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 Mr. Speaker, that the Governor signified that
he would be ready to receive the Address immediately, in the Con-
ference Chamber.
Ordered, That Mr. J. Goldsborough, and Five more, do present
the Address to his Excellency.
Mr. J. Goldsborough from the Committee of Grievances and
Courts of Justice, delivers to Mr. Speaker the following Report, viz.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
March 5
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By the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice, March 5,
1754.
From the Representation of several Clergymen, and other Mem-
bers, of the Church of England, made to your Committee last
Session, we find, that the Growth of Popery within this Province
hath become notorious, by the public Preaching of their Priests,
and their perverting many of his Majesty's loyal Protestant Sub-
jects, as also by corrupting the Minds of the Youth in teaching
School publicly, either by themselves or others of their Communion,
and that the Papists send their Children to Saint Omers for Educa-
tion, out of the King's Obedience and Allegiance, many of which
return into this Province Priests or Jesuits and propagate their
dangerous Doctrine with great Industry and without Controul.
And further, that it is a common Practice, as well among the
Popish Priests as other Papists, to pervert Servants and Negroes of
Protestants, whereby they gain an Influence and Authority over
them, which upon any intestine Commotion or foreign Invasion,
might probably be of fatal Consequence to his Majesty's Protestant
Subjects of Maryland.
Upon the whole, your Committee apprehend, that the several Mat-
ters above recited, together with the large Possessions of the Jesuits,
and the Vicinity of the French, must endanger the Peace of this
Province, and the Repose of all his Majesty's Colonies upon this
Continent; but is humbly submitted to the Consideration of your
Honourable House.
Signed per Order, William Wilkins, Clerk.
On motion of a Member, That the Lands formerly by an Act of
Assembly intituled, An Act to impower Commissioners to appoint and
Cause to be laid out 3000 Acres of Land, on Broad-Creek, in Somer-
set County, for the Use of the Nanticoke Indians, so long as they
shall Occupy the same, to be laid out for the Broad-Creek Indians ;
and, in Pursuance thereof, were possessed by them, but are now
totally Deserted, were vested in the Trustees mentioned in the
same Act and their Heirs, for the Use of the said Indians so long
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