322 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
March 6

M.^r Lloyd, 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 Com-
mander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.
The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency,
By the Petitions and Depositions that accompanied your Ex-
cellency's Message of the second Instant, we perceive the Necessity
you were under of ordering Companies of Twenty Men each, under
the Command of Lieutenants Baker and Shelby, to be raised and
sent to the Frontiers, for the immediate Protection of those In-
habitants; and being persuaded that your Excellency did it on a
Dependence that the Assembly would make Provision to enable you
to comply with the Engagement you entered into for the Payment of
those Men; and as we judge it expedient to give some further
Encouragement to those Men, or any others, by rewarding them
for the Scalps of such Indian Enemies as they may kill, or for
Indian Enemies taken alive; we have, in Conjunction with the
Upper House, entered into an Ordinance for taking Five Hundred
Pounds out of the Loan-Office, to be paid to your Excellency, for
the Purposes aforesaid, as the speediest Method of proceeding to
encourage the back Inhabitants to exert themselves, until the Bills,
now preparing, be passed into Laws, for the more effectual Security
of our Frontiers, in which we hope ample Provision will be made
for our own Defence, and the defeating the Designs of our
Enemies.
Which was read and assented to, and signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That M.^r Murdock and M.^r Waggaman do acquaint
his Excellency, That this House hath prepared an Address, to be
presented to him, and desires to know when and where he will
please to receive it: They return and acquaint M.^r Speaker, that
the Governor was pleased to signify he would receive the Address
immediately in the Conference Chamber.
Ordered, That Major Hall and Col. Henry do present the Address.
The House adjourns until 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
The House adjourns until Monday Morning at 9 of the Clock.

March 8
p. 187

Monday Morning, 8^th March, 1756.

The House met according to Adjournment: The Members were
called, and all appeared as on Saturday, except M.^r Reynolds, M.^r