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Mr. Earle brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the following
Ingrossed Address, viz.
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.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 49
Dec. 10

May it please your Excellency,
It gives us real Concern, that you should have Reason to complain
of any Want of Decorum or Regularity in this House in their Inter-
course with your Excellency, for which, we must acknowledge the
Neglect mentioned in your Message of the 9th Instant, gives some
Foundation: We therefore think it incumbent on us to make our
Apology to your Excellency for this undesigned Breach of Order,
and hope you'll attribute it to the real Cause, the Inadvertency of our
Clerk. The Reports, thus casually omitted to be annexed to the proper
Papers, we now send to your Excellency: And as you are pleased
to signify that you do not design your Message as a particular
Answer to our Address or the Depositions, it is unnecessary for us
to say more on the Subject, than that as you are now furnished with

all the Depositions and the Reportc, we hope your Excellency will

make Enquiry into the facts contained therein, and take proper
Measures to redress the Sufferers, and punish the Offenders.
Which Address was Read and Assented to, and Signed, by Order
of the House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That Mr. Wilson and Mr. Harris do acquaint his Ex-
cellency the Governor, That this House hath prepared an Address,
to be presented to him, and desires to know when and where he will
please to receive it: They return and acquaint Mr. Speaker, That
the Governor signified he would receive the Address at his House
immediately.
Ordered, That Mr. Govane, with Three more, do present the Ad-
dress.
On Motion, the Question was put, Whether any new Clause shall
be added to the Printer's Bill, or Not ? Resolved in the Negative ?

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For the Affirmative,

Williamson, J. H. Dorsey, Bracco.
Gassaway, Cockey Deye,

Lee, E. Tilghman, [7]

For the Negative,

Plater, Wilson, T. Gantt,
Sothoron, M. Tilghman, King,
Key, Edmondson, Sudler,
Hynson, Govane, Scarborough,
Tilden, Owings, Chapline,