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On Consideration of the said Report, Resolved, That this House
will, in the Afternoon, Resolve into a Committee of the whole
House, to consider of Ways and Means to raise a Sum of Money
towards his Majesty's Service.
On Motion, Ordered, That M.^r Mills, M.^r Williamson, M.^r Ham-
mond, M.^r J. Mackall, M.^r Smallwood, M.^r Waggaman, M.^r J. Golds-
borough, M.^r C. Goldsborough, M.^r Govane, M.^r Earle, M.^r Mur-
dock, M.^r Dulany, Col. Tilghman, Col. J. Henry, and M.^r Crabb,
be a Committee to enquire into Ways and Means to raise Money for
his Majesty's Service.
Ordered, That M.^r Lloyd and M.^r Dulany do present the Address

to his Excellency.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
March 2

Benedict Calvert, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r
Speaker a Petition of the Indians of Locust-Neck upon Choptank
River, in Dorchester County; indorsed By the Upper House of
Assembly, referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly which Petition was here read, and ordered to lie on the
Table.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.

His Excellency communicated to M.^r Speaker the following Mes-
sage, viz.^t

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
In Answer to your Address, presented me this Morning, I must
acquaint you, that I have not received any Letter from the Gov-
ernors of Virginia and the Carolinas since I forwarded to them
Copies of General Shirley's Proposals for a Treaty of Friendship
and Alliance with the Southern Indians; neither do I know what
Resolutions the Assemblies of those Provinces or Pennsylvania have
come to thereon, tho' I flatter myself that none of them will be so
far wanting to themselves, as to spare any Expence or Pains to
secure those Indians to the British Interest, and engage them to assist
his Majesty's Subjects in defending their Frontiers, or annoying
their Enemies: As you also seem very sollicitous to gain this most
desirable Point, I am persuaded I need not urge any Arguments
to incite you to make such Provision, agreeable to the General's
Proposals, that when the several neighbouring Colonies have come to
some Resolution thereon, they may find Commissioners sufficiently
impowered by the Legislature of this Province, and ready to nego-
tiate with theirs, and in Conjunction with them, by Presents or other-
wise, to improve the good Disposition of the Catawba and Cherokee
Nations towards us, which they have both professed, and the Chero-

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