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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
Dec. 16
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Plan of mutual Assistance, and Defence is that by which the Forces
raised in the respective Governments are subjected to one Direction
in their Military Operations; this our most gracious Sovereign has
been pleased to appoint by his Commission to the Earl of Loudoun,
and we can't but express our Concern that so necessary a Regula-
tion should in this Province, not only not be received with the,
most dutiful Professions of Gratitude but that even the Royal
Power thus exercised for our Benefit should be questioned or coun-
teracted, we shall not trouble your Excellency with a tedious Detail
of all the Imperfections of this Bill, our main Purpose being only to
acquit ourselves of the Charge of having rejected a Bill calculated
for his Majesty's Service which we apprehend must appear at the
first Glance to have an opposite Tendency and to be palpably incon-
sistent with the Duty we owe to our King and Country
We are extremely sorry no Provision has been made at the public
Expence for quartering his Majesty's Troops, the Petition pre-
ferred by the Corporation of Annapolis, received all imaginable
Countenance and Dispatch with us, & when we found that it was re-
jected by the Lower House, and there was no Probability of their
sending us a Bill for the End mentioned in this Application we pre-
pared and sent them one which underwent the same Fate with every
other Propisition for this Purpose
We hope your Excellency will excuse the Trouble we have given
you by this Address to vindicate our Conduct and assure you of the
very grateful Sense, we have of our most gracious Sovereign's
paternal Care of his American Subjects, and that to the utmost of
our Ability, as a Duty indispensably incumbent upon us, we shall
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embrace every Opportunity of distinguishing ourselves by our
Loyalty, advancing the genuine Interests of our Country, and pro-
moting the common Cause
16. Dec. 1757. B. Tasker President
Ordered that the Clerk of this House give the Printer a Copy of
the Bill for lessening the Allowances with the Amendments proposed
by the Lower House thereto, and the Messages that have passed
thereon, and that he be directed to print the same
Benedict Calvert and Daniel Dulany Esq.rs are sent to the Lower
House to acquaint the Speaker that his Excellency requires his
immediate Attendance with the Lower House in the Upper House
to see the Bills passed both Houses this Session receive the Assent
The Lower House attend, and by their Speaker present to his
Excellency the following Bills
A supplementary Act to an Act entituled, an Act to enable the
Justices of Baltimore County Court to assess and levy on the taxable
Inhabitants of S.t George's Parish in that County a Sum of Money
for the Uses therein mentioned
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