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of Assembly, That Col. Edward Lloyd, Treasurer of the Eastern
Shore of this Province, shall pay to his Excellency the Governor, or
to his Order, the Sum of One Hundred Pounds Current Money,
out of the Public Money now in his Hands, to be by his Excellency
laid out and disposed of, as a Present to the Indians now at Fort
Frederick, in such Goods as he shall judge most proper. Read and
Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly.
6^th May, 1757.
Signed p Order. Henry Hooper, Speaker.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
May 6

Was Read and Assented to, and, being Signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker, was sent to the Upper House
by Mr. Williamson and Mr. Worthington.
On Motion, Ordered, That all Accounts against the Public, shall
be from henceforth Proved in due Form of Law, otherwise they will
not be received by this House; and that Notice hereof be Printed
in the Gazette, or Weekly Paper, Printed by Mr. Jonas Green : And,
That the Clerk of this House do acquaint the Printer with this Order.
Mr. Matthew Tilghman brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, a
Bill, entituled, An Act for the speedy Payment of sundry Persons
therein mentioned; which was Read the first and second Time by
an especial Order, and will Pass; and was sent to the Upper House
by Mr. Bracco and Mr. Beall.
Mr. Goldsborough brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the
Journal of Accounts; which was Read and Assented to, and sent
to the Upper House by Mr. Goldsborough, and Two more.
Col. 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,
We think it our indispensible Duty to make use of this Opportunity
of Remonstrating to your Excellency (tho' we cannot do it without
much Reluctance) on the Subject of your Message of the 25th March,
1755, in Relation to the Conduct of Mr. Justice Rawlings (whose
Character, as we understand the Gentleman is now dead, we are
extremely sorry to bring again to public View); which we should
have done long before, had not we thought proper that his Majesty's
Service, and our own immediate Security against our Foreign
Enemies, should almost entirely engage our Attention.

The Representation and Request, which, by our Address of the
15th March, 1755, we made on that Subject, we did hope would
have had their due Weight; and were much surprized at your Ex-
cellency's intimating to us your Opinion, not only that Mr. Rawlings

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