The Lower House. 97

On Motion, That an Address be prepared to his Excellency, in
Answer to his Message of the 12th of April last:

Ordered, That Col. Tilghman, Mr. Hammond, and Mr. Murdock,
do prepare and bring in an Address accordingly.

Benedict Calvert, Esq;^r from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker, the following Message, viz.^t

By the Upper House of Assembly, 6^th May, 1757.
Gentlemen,

In Answer to your Message of Yesterday, by Messieurs Reynolds
and Sprigg, this House agrees to an Ordinance, impowering the
Treasurer of the Eastern Shore to pay One Hundred Pounds
Current Money to the Governor, to be delivered as a Present to
the Indians now at Fort Frederick.

Signed p Order. J. Ross, Cl. Up Ho.

Col. Tilghman brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the follow-
ing Ingrossed Address, viz.^t

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,

In Answer to your Message of the I2th April, 1757, tho' it
may be thought by the Earl of Loudoun for his Majesty's Service,
that Fort Cumberland shou'd be Garrisoned, yet were his Lordship
made clearly sensible of the Situation of that Fort with respect to
our Frontier Inhabitants, we are fully persuaded he would not think
it reasonable the People of this Province shou'd be burthened with
the Expence of supporting a Garrison there; and we are Resolved
not to pay for subsisting or maintaining any Forces that may be
posted at that Fort. We are sorry we cannot express an Approbation
of your Excellency's Instruction to Capt. Dagworthy, to march with
a Detachment from the Maryland Forces to Garrison Fort Cumber-
land; and more especially when we reflect, that immediately after the
Removal of Capt. Dagworthy from Fort Frederick (as we are in-
formed) a Party of Indians came down among the Inhabitants, and
committed several Murders, which probably would not have hap-
pened had Capt. Dagworthy's Men been Ranging about the Frontier,
as by the Act, which which they were supported, they ought to

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48

May 6

have been.

Which being Read, the Question was put, Whether the said Ad-
dress be Altered, or Not: Resolved in the Affirmative.

p. 434