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acquainted with them) have been taken by the Governments of South
and North-Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania, relative to a Treaty
with any of the Tribes of the Southern Indians: Ordered, That the
Committee of Laws do prepare and bring in an Address accordingly.
An ingrossed Bill entituled, An Act for the Adjournment and
Continuance of Talbot and Dorchester County Courts, was read and
assented to; and sent to the Upper House, with the Paper Bill, by
M.^r Gray and M.^r Edge.
M.^r Matthew Tilghman, from the Committee of Laws, brings in
and delivers to M.^r Speaker an Address to his Excellency the Gov-
ernor; which was read, approved, and ordered to be ingrossed.
Major Hall, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and delivers
to M.^r Speaker the following ingrossed Address, viz.

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,
Having under our Consideration General Shirley's Proposals for
a Treaty of Friendship and Alliance with the Southern Indians, and
being desirous, in Conjunction with the other Colonies therein men-
tioned, to do our Farts towards securing those Indians to the British
Interest, and engaging them to assist his Majesty's Subjects in
defending their Frontiers and annoying their Enemies; we humbly
request your Excellency will be pleased to communicate to this House
such Advices as your Excellency may have received from the Gov-
ernments of the Carolinas, Virginia, or Pennsylvania, relative to the
Negociation of the proposed Treaty, that we be the better enabled
to proceed in our Deliberations on that Matter.
Which was read and assented to, and signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honble Speaker.

Benedict Calvert, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r
Speaker the Paper Bill entituled, An Act reviving and continuing an
Act entituled, An Act to prevent the Exportation or Carrying out of
this Province, Ammunition, &c. and, An Act for the Adjournment
and Continuance of Talbot and Dorchester County Courts; severally
indorsed, By the Upper House of Assembly: The ingrossed Bill,
whereof this is the Original, is read and assented to.
On Motion, That a Bill be brought in, To prevent Masters of
Ships and other Vessels from bartering with Servants and Slaves :
Leave given. Ordered, That the Committee of Laws do prepare and
bring in a Bill accordingly.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
March I

On Motion, That an Address be prepared to his Excellency, to
request him to make Application to the Governor of Virginia or
New York for a Quantity of his Majesty's Arms and Ammunition,

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