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Mr. Carroll 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,
Upon Consideration of your Message of Yesterday, this House has
come to a Resolution to apply the Sum of Three Hundred Pounds,
out of the Money now in the Hands of the Agents, as a Present for
those Cherokee Indians that your Excellency has been pleased to
inform us, have continued with us ever since November last, to be
laid out by the said Agents, with your Approbation, in such Goods
as may be most proper to be presented to them, and also to make such
Allowances as shall be thought reasonable, for defraying the Ex-
pences of the Interpreter, Conductor, and the Indians now in this
City. And we shall immediately prepare a Bill for those Purposes,
which we hope will evince the Sincerity of our frequent Declara-
tions, that we look upon the cultivating the Friendship of the South-
ern Tribes of Indians, and engaging their Assistance against his
Majesty's Enemies, as a Matter of very great Consequence to the
Common Cause, and the immediate Security of our Frontier.

L. H. J.

Liber No. 50

Mar. 30

The Accounts your Excellency has been pleased to send, with that
Message, shall, as soon as we conveniently can, be taken into Con-
sideration.
Which was Read and Assented to, and Signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That Mr. Matthew Tilghman, and Mr. Benjamin Mack-
all, do acquaint 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
immediately in the Council Chamber.
Ordered, That Mr. Murdock, with Five more, do present the
Address.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock.

Post-Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Mr. Murdock, one of the Agents appointed by the Acts of As-
sembly for granting Supplies for his Majesty's Service, brings in the
several Books of Accounts relating thereto.
The House appointed Mr. Bracco, Mr. Earle, Col. Cresap, Mr.
Plater, Mr. Hanson, Mr. Sothoron, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. John
Hammond Dorsey, a Committee to inspect the Accounts of the
Agents appointed by the several Acts of Assembly, for raising
Money for his Majesty's Service.

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