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L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
February 35
p. 3i
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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
We his Majestys most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Delegates
of the Freemen of Maryland in General Assembly convened, return
your Excellency our Thanks for your Speech at the Opening of
this Session; and assure your Excellency that however sensible we
have already expressed ourselves of the fatal Consequences which
must attend the Enemys remaining Masters of the Country to the
Westward; and whatever Promises we have made on our Part
towards averting that Danger with which their Vicinity threatens
us; the same Sensibility of those Consequences and Readiness to
perform those Promises still subsist
And were the self-interested Motive of our own Preservation
Entirely out of the Case our sense of Gratitude and Duty to his
most sacred Majesty, whose gracious Benevolence and paternal Care
towards all his Subjects so highly conspicuous would demand from
us our Warmest and Just Acknowledgements, and excit our best
Efforts to answer his Royal Expectations.
But we intreat your Excellency to reflect that we the Delegates
make but one Branch of the Legislature of this Province and that
without the Concurrence of the Rest, however well deposed we may
be, nothing effectual can be done towards promoting the present ser-
vice as is too evident from what we have already unsuccessfully
attempted on this subject.
We shall nevertheless on our part take into Consideration the
several Matters by your Excellency Laid before us; and hope the
Circumstances of the Times and People we Represent, considered to
acquit ourselves as not undeserving his Majestys Goodness, your
Excellencys Approbation or the Esteem of our Constituents and other
fellow subjects.
We entertain no doubt of your Excellency's having properly and
frugally disposed of the Sum you Mention and readily accept your
Offer of an Account in part, and hope the same with regard to
the Residue when you shall be able to lay such Account before us.
Which was Read and Assented to and Signed by Order of the
House by The Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, that Doctor Carroll and M.r Matthew Tilghman do ac-
quaint his Excellency that this House hath prepared an Address to
be Presented to him and desire to know when and where he will
please to receive it They return and acquaint M.r Speaker they deliv-
ered the Message and that his Excellency was pleased to signify he
would receive the Address in the Afternoon in the Conference
Chamber.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock.
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