264 Assembly Proceedings, October 4-November 26, 1763.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 19

Gentlemen of the Upper house of Assembly

Having received Letters last night by Express from Captain
Shelley & other Persons who live in the Western Part of Frederick
County wherein they inform me that the Incursions of a Party of
Indians and some Mischief they have lately done at a Place called
the Cove either within or very near this Province have thrown our
Frontier Inhabitants into the greatest Consternation and that unless
an armed Force be Spedily sent to their relief there is great Reason
to believe Numbers of them would desert their Habitations and the
Frontier Settlement again become a Scene of Distress and Desola-
tion, I think it incumbent on me to recommend their unhappy Con-
dition to the Consideration of both you and the Gentlemen of the
Lower House of Assembly and am in hopes such Provision will be
made for their Relief and Protection as might encourage them to
remain on their Plantations and Secure them from the dreadful
Calamities they have at Present so much reason to apprehend

Hor,,^o Sharpe
19th. November 1763

Three Engrossed Bills for the Lower House by Mess.^rs Ringgold &
Smallwood An Act for the more effectual Securing of Orphans —
An Act to Confirm the Sale of certain Land lying in Eastern Neck
Island in Kent County, by Draper Lusby, and Frances his Wife,
Executive of John Hynson, Deceased to Matthew Bryan, — An Act
for the Advancement of Justice, thus Endorsed

17th. November 1763
Read and assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
signed p Order MMacnemara Clk. Lo. Ho.

p. 163

Read and assented to by this house and ordered to be so Sub-
scribed

A Bill Entituled An Act for preventing the Importation of German
and French Papists and Papish Priests and Jesuits into this Prov-
ince and of Irish Papists by way of Pensylvania and the Government
of Newcastle Kent and Sussex on Delawar and for encouraging
Protestants to come in and Settle the Western Frontier thus Endorsed

By the Lower House of Assembly 17th Nov:^r 1763
Read the first time and Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Clk. Lo. Ho.

By the Lower House of Assembly 19th Nov:^r 1763
Read the second time and Will pass
Signed p Order MMacnemara Clk. Lo. Ho.

Adjourned till Monday Morning ten of the Clock