106 Assembly Proceedings, April 8-May 9, 1757.

L. H. J.

Liber No. 48
May 7

Saturday, 7^th May, 1757.

The House met according to Adjournment: The members were
called and all appeared as Yesterday, except Mr. Mackall and Mr.
Earle.

Col. Tilghman brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the following
Address, viz^t

To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq ;^r 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 agree with you in the Expediency of securing the Indians to

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the British Interest; and therefore, in order that your Excellency
may send an agreeable Answer to the Letter or Message, which has
been sent to you from some of them, who, by that Letter, appear
to be now on our Frontier, accompanied with a Present, we have
agreed to an Ordinance, for impowering the Treasurer of the Eastern
Shore, to pay your Excellency One Hundred Pounds Currency, to
be laid out in Goods proper to be given to those Indians. Whoever
has supplied, or shall supply, those Indians with Provisions, while
on our Frontier, shall be paid their reasonable Accounts.

We humbly crave Leave on this Occasion to observe, that the
Catawba Indians having carried some Scalps to the Government
of Virginia, where we understand the Reward for them is but Ten
Pounds, and not having applied here, there seems Room to appre-
hend that these People are not informed of the Reward of Fifty
Pounds per Scalp offered by this Government, and it is highly prob-
able, from their Remoteness, that the Cherokees are as ignorant of
it as they: We must therefore take the Freedom to request, that
your Excellency will be pleased to Order, that both those Nations of
Indians may be well informed of the aforesaid Reward offered by
this Government, and that it may be also published in the Gazettes of
all the neighbouring Colonies and Provinces.

We cannot, without some Uneasiness, remark, that your Ex-
cellency should keep the above Letter or Message in your Hands
several Days, without communicating it to this House, which has
prevented our throwing that Matter into a Bill, for his Majesty's
Service, and our Security, during that Time under our Considera-
tion, where it would properly have been placed, and would have saved
our Time and Trouble in this Method, especially considering, that
upon other Occasions, you have been pleased to lay Matters before
us, recommending them as proper to be made Parts of Bills under
our Consideration.

On Reading thereof, the Question was put, Whether the said
Address shall be Altered, or Not ? Resolved in the Affirmative.