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M :r Ringgold from the Committee Appointed brings in and de-
livers to M.r Speaker an Address to the Governor which was Ap-
proved and Ordered to be Ingrossed
M :r Murdock bring in and delivers to M.r Speaker the following
Ingrossed Address Viz:t
To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq :r 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 Majestys most dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Delegates
of the Freemen of the Province of Maryland in Assembly Convened
return your Excellency our thanks for your Speech at the Opening
of this Session and beg leave to Assure you that the Opportunity
you Excellency has now afforded us of promoting the true Interest
of our Country is Extremely Agreeable to us
As we have thought it our indispensible Duty to our Constituents
at this time to appoint a Committee of some of our Members to join
Committees from the Houses of Representatives of other Colonies
on the Continent who are to meet at the City of New York on the
first Tuesday in October next in Order to Join in a General and
United dutifull loyal and Humble Representation to his Majesty
and the British Parliament of the Circumstances and Condition of
the British Colonies and Plantations and to Implore relief against
some acts of Parliament we are informed are lately passed in Eng-
land Whereby it is Apprehended the Libertys of the Colonies will be
Greatly Abridged which with the matters Necessarily relative to
and Dependant upon it wherein we have met with some very un-
expected delays has so wholly Engrossed our Attention that we have
not yet even Settled any of our Ordinary Rules for proceeding. We
cannot doubt but we shall stand Excused for being thus late in
Answering your Excellencys Speech and having now very nearly
Compleated that Affair And as the next month will be Chiefly taken
up in Adjourn'd County Courts by which means several of our other
Members must be taken from the Business of the Houses, or Great
Numbers Suffer much by their Suits Continuing Open at this time
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