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signiefied he would receive the Address in a Quarter of an Hour's
Time in the Council Chamber.
Ordered, That D. Wolstenholme, Esq and Col. Henry do present
the Address.
The Representation of Jonas Green, was read the second Time,
and Rejected.
The Bill, entitled, An Act to oblige infected Ships, and other
Vessels, &.ta to perform Quarantine: And the Bill, entitled, An Act
for the Payment of the Public Claims, &.ta were sent to the Upper
House, by M.r Hanson, and M.r Wright.
T. Johnson, Esq brings in, and delivers to M.r Speaker, the fol-
lowing ingrossed Address, Viz.t
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,
In Answer to your Excellency's Message, with the Copy of the
Letter you received from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations, we can only say, what is very generally known, that
nothing has been set up in this Province, which deserves the Name
of a Manufactory. It is true, that several Families make some of their
coarse Cloathing, within themselves, but in so few Instances as not
to deserve Notice; and that without any Encouragements from the
Public, or even private Subscriptions, except the small Bounty lately
paid by the County Courts on a few Pieces of Linen. Your Excel-
lency may well report, from your own Sight and Knowledge, that the
Inhabitants of this Province, from the first to the lowest Rank, are
generally cloathed in British Manufactures. It is evident, we cannot
import more of the British Manufactures than the Produce of our
own Exports, with an Advantage to our Mother Country. The very
heavy Burthen on Tobacco, and the small Nett Profit to the Planter,
have already brought us greatly in Debt; from a Continuation there-
fore, of these Burthens, the Increase of the Price of those Manu-
factures, and their Decline in Quality, a Necessity must arise of
Cloathing ourselves. Which was read and assented to, and Signed
by Order of the House, by the Honble Speaker.
Ordered, That M.r Lee, and M.r Grahame, do acquaint the
Governor, that this House hath prepared an Address to be presented
to him, and desires to know when and where he will please to receive
it. They return, and acquaint M.r Speaker, that the Governor signi-
fied he was ready to receive the Address immediately, in the Council
Chamber.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Dec. 6
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