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Ordered, That the Petitioner, and all Parties concerned, have
Summonses for Witnesses in Relation to the Allegations and Facts
contained in the said Petition, upon Application made to the Clerk
of this House for that Purpose.

L.H.J.
Liber No. 49
Oct. 13

The House adjourns until the Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.

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Friday, 14^th October, 1757.

The House met according to Adjournment: The Members were
called, and all appeared as Yesterday, except Mr. Sudler and Mr.
Sothoron. The Proceedings were Read.

Mr. Matthew Tilghman appeared in the House.

Col. Tilghman brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, an Address
to his Excellency; which was Read, Approved, and Ordered to be
Ingrossed.

On Motion, That an Address be prepared to his Excellency the
Governor, in Answer to his Message of the 7th Instant, which
inclosed a Copy of a Letter from one of his Majesty's principal
Secretaries of State, and another from Rear Admiral Holburne;
Ordered, That Col. Tilghman, Mr. Dulany, and Mr. Murdock, do
prepare and bring in such Address.

Mr. Edward Oldham, a Delegate returned for Talbot County,
appeared in the House.

Ordered, That Mr. Goldsborough and Mr. Edmondson do go
with him to the Upper House, to see him Qualified. They return
and acquaint Mr. Speaker, That they saw him Qualified in the
usual Manner.

The Gentleman took his Scat hi the House.

Col. Tilghman brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the follow-
ing Ingrossed 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 are greatly concerned to find, by your Message of the /th In-
stant, that while there have been a Number of Troops kept up under
your Command, in the Pay of this Province, on the Frontiers thereof,
more than sufficient for the immediate Defence and Security of the

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back Inhabitants, there should be Applications made to you by Capt.
Joseph Chapline, and a Number of those People, for Protection
against their Savage Enemies; and we cannot but be of Opinion,
that if even a Part of those Troops had been put upon, and punctu-
ally performed, the Duty clearly enjoined them by the Law, by which

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