596 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 14-Oct. 9, 1756.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
September
15

cal Juncture. And as we are thoroughly sensible of our common and
immediate Danger, you may depend upon our exerting ourselves with
that Unanimity and Dispatch, which the Importance of the several
interesting Matters, recommended by your Excellency, requires.
When your Excellency shall be pleased to lay before us your
Instructions to the Commanding Officers of the Militia to enlist Men,
in Consequence of the Lord Loudoun's Letter, we doubt not but we
shall have Reason to approve your ready Compliance with his Lord-
ship's Requisition.
We shall always chearfully take under Consideration whatever
shall be communicated by your Excellency, and flatter ourselves we
shall be happy enough in all our Results to meet a general
Approbation.

Which was Read and Assented to, and signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That M.^r Matthew Tilghman and Col. Henry do acquaint
his Excellency, That this House hath prepared an Address, to be
presented to him, and desires to know when and where he will please
to receive it: They return and acquaint M.^r Speaker, that his Excel-
lency was pleased to signify he would receive the Address imme-
diately in the Conference Chamber.
Ordered, That M.^r John Goldsborough, and Five more, do present
the Address to his Excellency.
The House adjourns until the Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.

September
16

Thursday Morning, September 16, 1756.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
M.^r Earle and M.^r Ward appeared in the House.
On Motion, Resolved, That this House will (Afternoon) take
into Consideration the several Matters contained in his Excellency's
Speech.
On Motion, the House appointed M.^r Walter Dulany, M.^r Earle,
M.^r Edge, M.^r Beall, M.^r Williamson, M.^r Bracco, and M.^r John
Handy, a Committee to inspect the Accounts and Proceedings of
the Commissioners and Trustees for emitting Bills of Credit, estab-
lished by Act of Assembly; and Ordered, That they do Report the
same to this House.

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The following Message, viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, September 16, 1756.
May it please your Honours,
This House hath appointed M.^r Walter Dulany, M.^r Earle, M.^r
Edge, M.^r Beall, M.^r Williamson, M.^r Bracco, and M.^r John Handy,
a Committee from this House, to inspect the Accounts and Pro-