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

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April 29

Wednesday Morning 29^th April 1761
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
His Excellency is pleased to communicate to this house the fol-
lowing Message
Gentlemen of the Upper House of Assembly
As the Members of the Lower House in an Address which was
presented to me, the 15^th Instant expressed a Willingness to join
with us in such a one to his Majesty as I had then mentioned in
my Messages to both houses, I was in hopes that they would most
readily have done so, but since I perceive by the Report which ac-
companied your Yesterdays Address that they are averse to join us
in any unless such a Clause be added to that which was offered to
the Committee by some of your Members as Seems to be extrembly
improper and foreign to the subject of that Address, I presume there
is not any probability of our all joining in one and the same Address
to our most gracious Sovereign and therefore as I think it would
become Us to transmit one with out longer delay I will if you please
immediately sign that of Which you have presented me with a Copy

The 29^th April 1761 Horatio Sharpe

To the Kings most Excellent Majesty
The humble Address of the Lieutenant Governor and the Upper
House of Assembly in the Province of Maryland
Deeply Affected with the severe Loss we in Common with our
Fellow subjects have sustained by the Death of Our late most Ex-
cellent King of happy memory whose paternal Care the Inhabitants
of these Colonies have in the Amplest Manner Experienced in the
Course of his long mild just and Glorious Reign favourably permit
us most gracious sovereign to Condole with your Majesty that

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melancholy Event, But We should not approve ourselves in any
respect worthy of the Indulgent Protection of Providence did We not
desire and most thankfully acknowledge the strongest Consolation
from a Contemplation on the Eminent and Royal Virtues which
constitute and Embellish the Character of a good King and give
the best Assurance of a Continuance under your Majestys Reign
of the Invaluable Blessings We have so long Enjoyed during that of
your Illustrious Grandfather with this Assurance we join in the
General Joy which hath been diffused through all the Extensive
Dominions of Great Britain and with the greatest Humility and
purest Sincerity of Heart beg leave to congratulate your Majesty
upon Your Accession to the Throne of Your Ancestors
May your Majesty be rendered Happy by the prosperity of a
free People flourishing under the Benign Influence of Your Aus-