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Present as Yesterday and Col : Hammond
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
Feb. 28

This House met again according to Adjournm.^t

Present as in the Morning
Benjamin Tasker Esq. attended by the Members of this House
presents to his Excellency their Address which follows in these
Words
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq. Governor and Commander
in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland
The humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly
' May it please your Excellency
We return your Excellency our Thanks for your Speech on the
24. Instant, The Earl of Loudoun's Letter you have been pleased to
communicate to both Houses of Assembly gives us peculiar pleasure
and Satisfaction
The vigorous Measures his Lordship intends to pursue are so
evidently conducive to the immediate Security and future Ease of
this Province, that at the same Time we beg Leave to assure your
Excellency we think ourselves bound by an indispensible Duty to
comply with his Lordship's Proposition as far as we are able, we
can't but acknowledge our Obligation to his Lordship for this
Instance of his great Attention to our Interests
B. Tasker Presid.^t

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning 10. of the Clock

p. 247

Wednesday Morning 1.^st March 1758.
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

Mar. 1

Thursday Morning 2.^d March 1758.
This House met again according to Adjournm.^t

Mar. 2