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Material who begun it, but I mention this to put you on your Guard
against the Impositions of the Person for the future.
Hor.^o Sharpe.
16th December, 1757.

Upon Reading the said Message, Ordered, That an Address be
prepared, to be presented to his Excellency in Answer thereto; and
that Mr. Matthew Tilghman and Mr. Carroll do prepare and bring
in such Address.

L. H. J.

Liber No. 49
Dec. 16

Mr. Carroll brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, an Address to
his Excellency the Governor; which was Read, Approved, and Or-
dered to be Ingrossed.
Mr. Matthew Tilghman 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.
May it please your Excellency,
Our sitting here now that the Business of this House is compleated,
is so vastly irksome, that we hope we shall be excused from taking,
at present, any further Notice of your second Message of this Day,
than to request your Excellency would be pleased to send a Copy of
our Supply Bill (which our Clerk is ordered forthwith to deliver
to you) to the Earl of Loudoun; as we are fully convinced his Lord-
ship's Goodness and Candour will induce him to peruse the Whole,
that he may see our Conduct in it's proper Light.
Which was Read and Assented to, and Signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That Alexander Williamson, Esq; and Mr. Matthew
Tilghman, do acquaint his Excellency the Governor, That this House
hath prepared an Address, to be presented to him, and desired to
know when and where he will be pleased to receive it. They return
and acquaint Mr. Speaker, That the Governor signified he would
receive the Address immediately at his House.
Ordered, That Mr. Murdock, with Three more, do present the
Address to his Excellency the Governor.

The following Message, viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, 16^th December, 1757.
May it please your Honours,
Your Message of the 15th Instant by Benedict Calvert, Esq; con-
taining an Offer of Alterations to the Amendments by us proposed
to the Bill for Reducing the Allowances of the Members of the

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Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, sent down with that Bill, is

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