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On Motion, Ordered, That an Address be prepared to his Ex-
cellency, setting forth the Matters contained in the Report from the
Committee appointed to enquire into the Disbursement of the Monies
raised by the several Acts of Assembly for Maintaining the Forces
to Guard the Western Frontier of this Province, and into the State
and Condition of Fort Frederick, and into the Conduct and Behaviour
of the Officers and Soldiers supported in the Pay of this Province ;
and that Col. Tilghman, Mr. Dorsey, and Mr. Matthew Tilghman,
do prepare and bring in such Address.
Mr. Dorsey brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, an Address to
his Excellency, which was Read, Approved, and Ordered to be
Ingrossed.
Col. Tilghman brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker the following
Ingrossed Address, viz.t
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 looked upon the Cultivating the Friendship of the Southern
Tribes of Indians, engaging their Assistance against his Majesty's
Enemies, and Establishing them in the British Interest, as a Matter
of very great Importance, both to the Common Cause, and the im-
mediate Security of our Frontier Inhabitants, we did, in our Bill
for his Majesty's Service and our own Security, some Time since
offered to the Upper House, direct that the Sum of £2000 should be
laid out, by the Agents by that Bill nominated, in such Goods as might
be thought most acceptable to those Indians, and that those Goods
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should be lodged at Frederick-Town in Frederick County, and should
be Distributed at Fort Frederick to any such Parties of those Indians
as might come into this Province, and engage in any Service against
the Common Enemy, upon their return from that Service, in such
Quantities as your Excellency, or the Governor or Commander in
Chief of this Province for the Time being, should judge ample Re-
wards for their respective Services, and by Order, under Hand, direct
and appoint; and we can only express our great Concern, that our
good Intentions, in proposing a Measure which in all probability
might be so conducive to the Safety of our distressed Frontier People,
and to the Establishment of numerous Tribes of Indians in the
British Interest, should be rendered ineffectual by the Negative of
the Upper House passed upon that Bill.
Which was Read and Assented to, and Signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That Mr. Lee and Mr. Hanson do acquaint his Excel-
lency, That this House hath prepared an Address to be presented to
him, and desired to know when and where he will please to receive it.
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