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L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
July;
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Col.o Tilghman, from the Committee of Laws, brings in the fol-
lowing ingrossed Address, viz.t
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; Governor and Commander
in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.
The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency,
In Answer to your Excellency's Message of this Day, we should
be extreamly wanting in Duty to, and Affection for, our Fellow-
Subjects and Fellow-Christians, on our Western Frontiers, at present
under the Terrors of daily Expectations of further Invasions, Depre-
dations and Murders, by the Savage Indian Allies of our most
ambitious and most implacable Enemies the French, if we did not
embrace every Opportunity of manifesting our deep Concern for
their Distresses, and of evincing our Readiness to administer every
reasonable Mean within our Power, agreeable to the Duty of our
Station, which might probably give Relief, in their most deplorable
Circumstances.
The several Bills which we have sent to the Upper House, in this
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and the two last Sessions, are, we hope, sufficient Proofs of our
earnest Endeavours to promote his Majesty's Service, on the present
Expedition to the Westward, on the Event of which, not only the
Lives and Safety of our Fellow-Subjects, on our Western Borders,
may immediately, but perhaps our own, consequently, so greatly
depend, and as we despair, that any Expedient we can now propose,
even would we be so irregular as once more to reconsider the Bill,
mentioned by your Excellency, can have any good Effect, we there-
fore hope, we shall not remain any longer here at present, so greatly
expensive to our Constituents, and from the extream Unseasonable-
ness of the Time of Year, so much to the Disadvantage of our
private Concerns; and we humbly presume to hope, that we shall not
be called again, till a Season proper for continuing upon a Course
of the common Business of the Country, unless it shall fortunately
happen, that the present Unwillingness in that Honourable House,
to concur with Measures reasonable, and well concerted, for pro-
moting his Majesty's Service, and, consequently, perserving the
Lives, Liberties, and Properties of Ourselves, and our Fellow-
Christians and Subjects, shall be removed; and we take Leave
firmly to assure your Excellency, that whenever that may be the
Case, the Considerations of Health, Private Concern, and Inclemency
of Season, of any Kind, shall vanish before those much more
important Ones of his Majesty's Service, and our Country's Safety,
and we will, with most chearful Expedition, obey your Excellency's
Summons.
Which was read and assented to, and signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
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