The Lower House. 4I9

For the Affirmative,

Williamson, M. Tilghman, E. Tilghman,
Carroll, Earle, Bracco,
J. Goldsborough Lloyd, Crabb. [9]

M.^r Carroll, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and delivers
to M.^r Speaker an Address to his Excellency; which was read, ap-
proved, and ordered to be ingrossed.
Col. Hammond, from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r Speaker
the Bill entituled, A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled, An
Act for Repairing the Publick Roads, &c. indorsed, By the Upper

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
May 13

House of Assembly, May 13, 1756. Read the second Time, and
will pass.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.

Which Bill was read here, and passed for ingrossing.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
M.^r Hammond, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and
delivers to M.^r Speaker the following ingrossed Address to the
Governor; which was read and assented to, and signed, by Order
of the House, by the Honourable Speaker, 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 of the twelfth Instant, we beg Leave
to observe, that though the Government of Virginia have sent Com-
missioners to the Cherokee Country, to make a League with them, in
Behalf of these Colonies, and to secure them to our Interest, yet,
we cannot think it unnecessary to appoint Commissioners for that
Purpose, in Behalf of this Province, who, in Conjunction with such
as may be appointed by the Governments of Pennsylvania and North-
Carolina, or either of them, may hold a Treaty with the Cherokee
Indians in Behalf of their several Provinces, and thereby attach
them more firmly to the general Interest of these Colonies, and to
their own in particular. And in case Commissioners should be
appointed by any other Government to act in Conjunction with those
appointed in Behalf of this Province, we conceive the Commissioners
of this Province will be sufficiently impowered, by the Bill now
before the Upper House, if they shall judge it needful, to apply at
least £1500. Part of the Money thereby appropriated for engaging
the Assistance and cultivating the Friendship of the Southern Tribes

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