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

L.H.J.

Liber No. 48
April 23

p. 242

well as to demonstrate our Willingness to do every Thing in our
Power towards the Support of his Majesty's undoubted Rights on
this Continent, we herewith send your Honours another Bill, well
calculated for those important Purposes, which we doubt not will
meet with your ready Concurrence.
Signed per Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.

Was sent to the Upper House by Philip Hammond, Esq; and

Nine more.
On Motion, Ordered, That an Address be prepared to his Excel-
lency, in Answer to his Message of the 19th Instant, and that the
Committee of Laws do prepare and bring in the same.
The House adjourns until Two of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
M.^r Carroll, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and delivers
to M.^r Speaker an Address to the Governor; which was read, ap-
proved, and ordered to be ingrossed.
Col. Hammond, from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r Speaker
a Bill entituled, An Act to prevent the Growth of Popery within
this Province; indorsed, By the Upper House of Assembly, April 23^d,
1756. Read the second Time and will pass.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.

Which Bill was read here the first Time, and ordered to lie on the
Table.

Major Hall, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and delivers
to Mr. 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,
In Answer to your Message of the 19^th Instant, we beg Leave to
acquaint your Excellency, that we are truly sensible of the deplor-
able Situation of the back Inhabitants, and desirous to do every
Thing in our Power for their Relief, and earnestly hope, that the
Bill, just prepared by us, and sent to the Upper House, will meet
with Concurrence, and sufficiently provide for repelling the daring
Attempts that may be expected from the Enemy. We shall imme-
diately proceed to take under our Consideration the Condition of
the late Inhabitants of Nova-Scotia sent into this Province, and
endeavour to fix on some Expedient for their Relief, and to prevent
their leaving the Counties into which they have been distributed,
and to punish such as may be discovered on the Frontier of the
Province.