8 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 23-Nov. 4, 1758.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
Oct. 27

Credit of their Country gives us the greatest Pleasure, and we shall
on our Parts most chear fully agree to repay the Money which hath
been expended for their Necessary Support as well as on M^r Ross's
Account whose Confidence in the Honour of the Province ought not
to turn to his Disadvantage
We are extremely sorry that any occasion has been given for an
odious Distinction to be made Between the Inhabitants of Maryland
and those of the Neighbouring Colonies and are obliged to your
Excellency for the just Representation you made of the Disposition
of the people of this Province whose principles might be doubted
amongst Strangers unacquainted with the real Springs of Publick
Proceedings, and judging only from remote and falacious appear-
ance, the abundant Proofs we have already given your Excellency
of our Sincere Disposition to Advance his Majestys Service make it
unnecessary to Assure you at this Time of our Determination to
hold the same Conduct
We beg Leave to return your Excellency our warmest thanks for
your Care of the Frontier Inhabitants dureing Last Summer a
Service discouraged by so many Disagreeable Circumstances and
attended with so much Hardship and Fatigue that very few in your
Scituation would have undertaken it with the alacrity and Sustained
it with the Firmness your Excellency has done
Indeed the measures which your Prudence Suggested your ex-
ample recommended and your Activity supported have very Con-
siderably promoted the Common Cause, as they enabled the General
to draw into the Field those Troops which would have been Neces-
sarily left for the Defence of Fort Cumberland, had not your
Excellency undertaken to garrison that place with Volunteers "whose
Spirit on this Occasion cant bee too much Commended" and Com-
mend them in Person

We should Take the Liberty of recommending to your Excellency's
Particular Countenance those Gentlemen of Frederick County who
have distinguished themselves in Seconding your Excellencys Pur-
pose, if we were not Satisfied that the merit of such a Spirited
Conduct is the Strongest Recommendation to your Excellency's
Regards
B. Tasker Presid.^t

p. 368

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning at 10. of the Clock

Oct. 28

Saturday Morning 28.^th October 1758.
This House met again According to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Adjourned till Monday Morning at 10' of the Clock