The Address to his Excellency was Read, Approved, and Ordered
to be Ingrossed.

Mr. Murdock 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, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Delegates
of the Freemen of Maryland, in Assembly convened, return your
Excellency our Thanks for your Speech at the Opening of this
Session.

As we have the Security of this Colony, and his Majesty's Service

in general, most sincerely at Heart, we embrace, with the greatest

Chearfulness, every Opportunity your Excellency is pleased to give
us of exerting our zealous Endeavours to concur in, and to the
utmost of our Abilities support, every Measure conducive to those
desirable Ends.

This House had, at their last Meeting, Resolved, That they would
Reimburse General Forbes, out of the first Supplies that should be
Granted for his Majesty's Service, all the Money he had or should
reasonably advance on Account of the Troops of this Province,
taken into his Majesty's Service, to the End of the Campaign, and a
Bill to carry their Resolutions into Effect, might have been, by this
Time, passed, or in great Forwardness, had not your Excellency
prevented it by a Prorogation.

We shall take under our Consideration the General's Letter, and
with Dispatch (which we hope will not be embarrassed by any un-
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