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

L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
September
22

Wednesday Morning, 22^d September, 1756.

The House met according to Adjournment: All the Members
appeared as Yesterday, except M.^r Bracco.
On Motion, That an Address be prepared to his Excellency, re-
questing him to lay before this House Copies of such Accounts as
he may have transmitted in Obedience to the Secretary of State
his Letter, dated 13th of March, 1756, Ordered, That M.^r Ham-
mond, Col. Tilghman, and M.^r Carroll, do prepare and bring in such
Address.
Col. Tilghman, from the Committee appointed, brings in and
delivers to M.^r Speaker an Address to his Excellency; which was
Read, Approved, and Ordered to be ingrossed.
The House adjourns until 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
M.^r Carroll brings in and delivers to M.^r 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,
As we have now under our Consideration the State of this Prov-
ince, more especially with Regard to the Defence thereof, we humbly
request your Excellency will be pleased to lay before us Copies of
such Accounts as you may have transmitted in Obedience to the
Letter from his Majesty's Secretary of State, dated the 13th Day
of March, 1756, by your Excellency communicated to us, of the
State and Quantity of Cannon, Small Arms, Ammunition, and other
Ordnance and Military Stores, belonging to this Colony, either in
the Public Magazines, or in Possession of the Militia, or other
private Persons, together with the true State of all Places already
Fortified, or Copies of whatever Accounts your Excellency may have
received from the Militia-Officers, that may give us any Information
of the Circumstances of this Province as to those Particulars, as they
will conduce much to the Dispatch of the important Business now
before us.
Which was Read and Assented to, and Signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.

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Ordered, That M.^r Mills and M.^r Hicks do acquaint his Excel-
lency, 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 Excellency was
pleased to signify he would be ready to receive the Address imme-
diately in the Conference Chamber.