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

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
April 1

they likewise prepare an Ordinance for the Sum of £250 and a
Message to the Upper House, to be sent to require the Concurrence
of that House.
M.^r Bordley brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker an Address to
his Excellency; which was read, approved, and ordered to be in-
grossed.

M.^r Murdock 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,
In Answer to your Message this Afternoon, we beg Leave to
inform your Excellency, that we have Resolved upon an Ordinance,
which is now preparing, for an immediate Supply of Two Hundred
and Fifty Pounds Current Money, for the further Protection of
the People on the Western Frontier of this Province; which Sum,
we are in Hopes, may be sufficient for that Purpose, until the Bill,
now under our Consideration, for his Majesty's Service, may be
enacted into a Law.
Which was read and assented to, and signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That M.^r Bordley and Col. Fitzhugh 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 M.^r Speaker, that the Gov-
ernor was pleased to signify he would receive the Address imme-
diately in the Conference Chamber.

Ordered, That Col. Addison and M.^r Benjamin Mackall do present
the Address to his Excellency.
The following Message, viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, April 1, 1756.
May it please your Honours,
We are now preparing an Ordinance for an immediate Supply
of a Sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds Current Money, to be
paid by the Commissioners of the Loan-Office to his Excellency the

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Governor, for the further Protection of our Frontier Inhabitants,
with which we hope your Honours Concurrence; and we will take
proper Measures in our Bill for replacing the said Sum.
Signed per Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.

Was sent to the Upper House, by M.^r Edge and Capt. Earle.

Col. Hammond, from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r Speaker
the following Message, viz.