406 Assembly Proceedings, May 24-June 22, 1768.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
June 21

Jennings, M.^r Ringgold, and M.^r Grahame do prepare an address to
his excellency in answer thereto
The ingrossed bill entitled An act for amending and declaring the
law in the cases therein mentioned: Read, and assented to; and sent
to the upper house by M.^r Grahame and M.^r Buchannan
Benedict Calvert Esquire from the upper house delivers to M.^r
Speaker, the bill entitled, An act for the relief of the poor within
the several counties therein mentioned ; indorsed "By the upper house
of assembly June 16.^th 1768: Read the first time and ordered to lie

on the table
Signed by order U Scott cl: up: ho:

"By the upper house of assembly June 21.^st 1768: Read the second

time and will pass.
Sign'd by order U Scott cl: up: ho:

Which is read here and pass'd for ingrossing
The ingross'd bill entitled, An additional supplementary act to the
act entitled an act for the establishment of religious worship in this
province, according to the church of England, and for the main-
tenance of ministers: Read and assented to, and sent to the upper
house by M.^r Allen and M.^r Griffith.
Walter Dulany Esquire from the upper house, delivers to M.^r
Speaker the paper bills entitled, An act for the relief of the reverend
John Macpherson of Charles county,
An act for the relief of certain languishing prisoners in the several
jails therein mentioned, An act for licensing ordinary keepers,
hawkers, pedlars, and petty chapmen, And An act for amending
and declaring the law in the cases therein mentioned: Which bills
were severally indorsed "By the upper house of assembly, June
21.^st 1768, The ingross'd bill whereof this is the original, read and

assented to.
Sign'd by order U Scott cl: up: ho:

M.^r M Tilghman brings in and delivers to M.^r speaker the follow-
ing petition,

p. 539

To the Kings most Excellent Majesty,
Most gracious Sovereign
Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the representa-
tives of the freemen of your province of Maryland, happy in their
allegiance to the best of Kings, and warm in affection and attach-
ment to your sacred person and government, with all humility beg
leave to approach the throne and supplicate your Majesty, ever
graciously inclined to hear the just complaints of your most remote
subjects.
Your Majesty's people of this province, conceive it a fixed, and
unalterable principle in the nature of things, and a part of the very