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Country to rescue the Colonies from the dangers to which they
were not long Since exposed, we shall for our parts embrace every
Opportunity of making the Best return in our power convinced
that a Vigorious prosecution of the War is the only effectual
measure to reduce the Enemy to the Necessity of Accepting Peace on
Terms of Glory to his Majesty's Crown advantages to great Britain
and particularly beneficial to his Majesty's Subjects in America,
We should be extremely wanting to ourselves and our posterity as well
as in duty and gratitude to our most Gracious Sovereign, were we not
most readily to comply with His requisition Signified by the Letters
which Your Excellency hath been pleased to lay before us.
We beg leave therefore to Assure you that Zealous as we have
been on every Occasion to promote the Service of Our Sovereign
we Shall most chear fully give our Concurrence to any equitable Bill
for the purposes recommended by Your Excellency, which may be
at this time offered Us, and Shall rejoice if the Issue of this Session
be such as to induce His Majesty to entertain a favourable Opinion
of this Province and to believe that the Inhabitants of Maryland
are not unworthy of the Happiness which all his good and Loyal
Subjects have the greatest reason to promise themselves under his
Auspicious Reign
April 15.th 1761 B: Tasker President
A Message by Messrs Tilghman and Dulany
By the Lower House of Assembly
May it please your Honours
As the Governor has been pleased to intimate to Us his desire
to join both houses in an Address of Condolence to his Majesty,
to express the Sense We all have of the great loss which He and 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.
And as We cannot doubt of Your ready Concurrence therein We
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