The Lower House. 421

Extract from the Report, dated March 15, 1756, as follows, viz.
" Your Committee beg Leave to inform you, that the Firelocks and
Pistoles, in general, are unfit for Service, owing entirely to the
Neglect and Incapacity of the Armourer."
Which was read and assented to, and signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That M.^r Williamson and M.^r Beall 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 M.^r Smallwood and M.^r John Goldsborough do
present the Address,
Col. Tilghman, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and
delivers to M.^r Speaker a Bill entituled, An Act for preventing
Indians, disaffected to the British Interest in America, from coming
into this Province as Spies, or on any other evil Design; which was
read the first Time, and ordered to lie on the Table.
M.^r Carroll, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and delivers
to M.^r Speaker a Bill entituled, An Act for the Naturalization of
Foreign Protestants; which was read the first Time, and ordered
to lie on the Table.
The House adjourns until 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Samuel Chamberlaine, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to
M.^r Speaker the following Message, viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly, May 14, 1756.
Gentlemen,
[This lengthy Message is printed in full in the Upper House
Journal, pages 280-3.]

L. H. J.

Liber No. 48
May 14

Benedict Calvert, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r
Speaker a Petition of John Farrow; indorsed, " By the Upper
House of Assembly, May 13, 1756. Referred to the Consideration
of the Lower "House of Assembly;" which Petition was read
here, and ordered to lie on the Table.
On Motion, the Question was put, Whether a general Answer
shall be prepared by the Committee of Laws to the Message of the
Upper House, brought down this Afternoon by Samuel Chamber-
laine, Esquire, or Not Resolved in the Affirmative.

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