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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
March 8
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which is reasonable and expedient for the Security and Prosperity
of those who are intitled to that Appellation: A due Execution of the
Laws in Force in this Province, you may be assured I will always
encourage and promote.
Hor.° Sharpe.
Col. Lloyd, from the Upper House, delivers to Mr. Speaker the
Bill intituled, An Act impowering the Justices of Frederick County
Court, to levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the said County, a Sum
of Current Money for the Use therein mentioned; indorsed, " By the
Upper House of Assembly, March 6, 1754. Read the second Time
and will pass.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho."
Which Bill was here read, and passed for ingrossing
Doctor Hamilton brings in, and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the fol-
lowing ingrossed Address, viz.
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.
The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency,
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In Answer to your Excellency's Message of the sixth Instant, sent
to us, together with the Governor of Virginia's Letter; we sincerely
profess, that it gives us no small Concern, to have any Occasion of
differing in Sentiments with your Excellency, and likewise, that we
have not been able to procure a Bill, sent from this to the Upper
House, For his Majesty's Service; but, upon the most mature Con-
sideration of your Excellency's Message, and the Letter therewith
sent, we humbly conceive, that the Situation, or Circumstance, of our
Neighbours of Virginia, with regard to any Violence or Outrage,
threatened or perpetrated against them, by the French, does not
require our immediate Aid or Assistance, by the raising of an armed
Force here, agreeable to the Instructions given us, in the Earl of
Holdernesse's Letter; and therefore, we do not think it necessary to
do any Thing in that Matter at present.
Which was read and assented to, and signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That Col. Harrison, and Mr. B. Mackall, do acquaint his
Excellency, that this House hath prepared an Address to be pre-
sented to him, and desires to know when, and where, he will please
to receive it: They return and acquaint Mr. Speaker, that the Gov-
ernor signified he was ready to receive the Address immediately, in
the Conference Chamber.
Ordered, That Mr. Stoddert, and Three more, do present the
Address.
On motion, That leave be given to bring in a Bill, For the Raising
of a Sum of Money to be laid out in the Purchasing of Presents for
the Northern and Southern Indians,
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