332 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 28-Dec. 16, 1757.

L.H.J.
Liber No. 49
Dec. 9
p. 157

they will be such as the Laws of the Land warrant, and his Majesty's
Service require.
We agree with your Excellency, that the Matter recommended
to us is of the greatest Importance, and ought to be seriously con-
sidered; but upon the most mature Deliberation, we cannot see how
we can make a better Provision for the Ease, Satisfaction and Quiet
of the Back Inhabitants, than has been already done by the Bill
sent by us to the Upper House, and by them Rejected; after which,
our Consciences acquit us of Want of Duty to our most Gracious
Sovereign, and our Constituents.
On Reading the said Address, the Question was put, Whether
the House Approves the said Address, or Not? Resolved in the
Affirmative.

For the Affirmative,

Sothoron, Dent, Fraser,
Williamson, M. Tilghman, T. Gantt,
Hynson, Govane, King,
Gassaway, J. H. Dorsey, Lloyd,
Carroll, Cockey Deye, E. Tilghman,
Worthington, Owings, Bracco,
J. J. Mackall, Earle, Sudler,
Reynolds, Baker, Scarborough,
Hanson, Ward, E. Dorsey,

Lee, Murdock, Beatty. [30]

For the Negative,

Plater, E. Gantt, Woodward,
Key, Waggaman, Harris,
Tilden, Wilson, Chapline.

B. Mackall, Edmondson, [11]

On Resolution of the aforegoing Question, the said Address was
Indorsed, " Read, Approved, and Ordered to be Ingrossed."
His Excellency the Governor communicated to Mr. Speaker the
following Message, viz.

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
In your Third Address of the 5th Instant, you are pleased to tell
me, That your Concern for the Distresses of the Frontier People,
induced you to lay before me a Report from a Committee appointed
to enquire into the Conduct and Behaviour of the Troops, which
have been raised and supported for their Protection, with Copies of

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Depositions thereto annexed; but on looking over the Bundle of
Papers that was delivered to me with that Address, I do not find
any Report from a Committee, but only Copies of sundry Deposi-