The Lower House. 681

Gassaway, Cockey Deye. Lloyd,
Carroll, Owings, E. Tilghman,
Worthington, Hyland, Bracco,
J. J. Mackall, Earle, Chapline,
E. Gantt, Baker, Beatty.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 50
May 10

Hanson, Ward, 29

For the Negative,

Sothoron, Goldsborough, Oldham,
Wilson, Edmondson, Dulany. 6

On Resolution of the aforegoing Question, the said Address was
Indorsed, " Read, Approved, and Ordered to be Ingrossed."
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock.
Post-Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment, &c.

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,
We can truly say your Surprize cannot be greater, than our Con-
cern, for the Necessity we are under of desiring an End may be put
to this Session, when it does not appear by any of the Bills which
are laying before you, that we have made any Provision for Raising
a Number of Troops for his Majesty's Service, or even Supporting
any Part of those already raised for that Purpose, and the more
immediate Defence and Security of the Frontier Inhabitants
Tho' we have Reason to believe, from some of your Excellency's
Messages to the Lower House in former Sessions relative to Money-
Bills (which have been only Framing in this House at the Time)
that you are well apprized of what has passed between the Two
Houses this Session upon a Bill for Granting a Sum of Money for
the Uses abovementioned, yet, as your Excellency is pleased to ex-
press an Unacquaintance with our Proceedings thereupon, we think
proper to inform you, that we early in this Session sent to the Upper
House a Bill for Granting an Aid of £45,000 wherein Provision was
made, not only for the Levying, Cloathing and Paying 1000 Men,
Officers included, to act in Conjunction with a Body of his Majesty's
British Forces under the Supreme Command of Brigadier Forbes,
or other Person duly authorized, in such offensive Operations as
shall be judged by him most expedient for annoying the Enemy, and
most efficacious towards removing and repelling the Dangers that
threaten the Frontiers of the Southern Colonies, but also for the Pay
and Subsistence of so many of the Five Hundred Men, taken into
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