406 Assembly Proceedings, April 13-May 6, 1761.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April 15

Present as in the Morning
Messrs Ringold & Hanson attend with M^r Tilden to See him
Qualified who takes the Several Oaths to the Government required
by Law repeats and subscribes the Abjuration and Test and then
withdrew
His Excellency is pleased to communicate to this House the
following Message
Gentlemen of the Upper House of Assembly
As I think it would become us in an Address of Condolence to
His Majesty to express our Sense of the great Loss which we and
all his Subjects have Sustained by the Death of our late most gracious
and excellent Sovereign and at the same time to congratulate His
Majesty on his happy Accession to the Throne of his Ancestors. I
take the Liberty to intimate as much to you, and if you approve
of the proposal, I shall be glad to join with you, and the Gentlemen
of the Lower House in Such Address

Horatio Sharpe
The 15^th of April 1761

The Honble Benjamin Tasker Esq^r Attended by the Members
of this House presents to his Excellency the following Address
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor & Commander
in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland
The Humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly
May it please your Excellency

Sensible of the great loss that we and all our Fellow Subjects
have suffered by the death of our late most Gracious and Excellent
Sovereign whose paternal Care and protection the Inhabitants of
these Colonies have in a pecular manner experienced we most
Sincerely lament with your Excellency that Melancholy Event

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Our grief on this Occasion could only be alleviated by the Con-
sideration of the eminent Virtues inherited from him with the
Crown by his illustrious Successor which encourage His Subjects
on the best grounds to entertain the utmost Confidence that under his
Auspices the will in the fullest Extent enjoy the innumerable and
invaluable Blessings which they have experienced during the long
mild just and glorious Reign of his Royal Grandfather Happy in
this prospect, we join in the general joy, which hath been diffused
throughout the extensive Dominion of Great Brittain and as we
earnestly desire to testify our duty and attachment to His Majesty's
Sacred Person and Government, both by our words & Actions we
return your Excellency our thanks for giving us this Opportunity
of doing both, and for the Speech which your were pleased to make
at the Opening of this Session

We also beg leave to assure your Excellency, that having in Re-
membrance what great Efforts have been made by the Mother