lvi Introduction.

On May 25th, the Lower House ordered that there be entered in its journal
"the Whole Proceedings of the Congress at New York" (p. 62). These are
duly entered at this point in the manuscript journal but do not appear in Green's
printed "Votes and Proceedings" for this session. It would seem they were not
printed by Green in his "Votes and Proceedings" because he was about to print
them separately in pamphlet form. This pamphlet, which is apparently the only
contemporary printing of the Proceedings of the Congress, was issued by the
Green press in September, 1766, under the title: Proceedings of the Congress
at New York (Wroth's History of Printing in Colonial Maryland, 1922;
p. 229).

At the November—December, 1766, Assembly, the Upper House and the
Lower House, in separate addresses to the King, addresses drawn up at the
suggestion of Hamersley, the Proprietary's Secretary in England, expressed
their gratitude to the King and to Parliament for repeal of the Stamp Act
(p. 134). The Lower House passed a bill, which was killed in the Upper
House, thanking William Pitt, Lord Camden, and other "distinguishing wor-
thies in the House of Peers and the House of Commons" opposed to the Stamp
Act, for their help in effecting its repeal, the bill also providing for the purchase
of a statue of Pitt and a portrait of Camden (pp. 209-210). These separate
addresses to the King are fully discussed in a later section (pp. lvii-lviii).

Although there had been relatively little mob disorder in Maryland when
attempts had been made to distribute the stamped paper at Annapolis, Zachariah
Hood, the distributor for this Province, had been hanged in effigy in Sep-
tember, 1765, and the house occupied by him as a distributing office destroyed.
Now that repeal was effected and tempers had cooled, the Lower House ap-
pointed a committee to consider what were the damages that had been sustained
by the distributor and the owner of the house, and what action should be taken.
This committee found that the front room on the lower floor of the dwelling
house in Annapolis, owned by the estate of Samuel Gaither, had been used as a
storeroom by Hood, and that the house had, in September, 1765, been "pulled
down and torn to Pieces by a Number of People"; that the house belonged to
the estate of Samuel Gaither, whose widow, Ann Gaither, occupied it; and
that a certain Wright Mills, a carpenter, had sustained damage by the loss of
his tools and materials in the wreckage and for work done by him in fitting
up the front room on the lower floor as a storeroom for Hood (pp. 189-190).
The Lower House, in a message to the Upper House, asked that in the Journal
of Accounts damages of f too be allowed the representatives of Samuel Gaither
for injury done to the house "by unknown persons and that £13:7:3 for his
losses be allowed Wright Mills" (pp. 191-192); and to this the Upper House
agreed (p. 119). Hood does not seem to have been a loser.

In an address by the Lower House to Sharpe, dated December 6, 1766, the
house felicitated the Governor, saying that although the courts "were in a
measure shut up and all Business at a stand for many months" during the
Stamp Act excitement, there was no injury done to persons or property in the
Province, "except a trifling Loss that happened by the pulling down of an old
House rented to the Stamp Distributor in the month of September, 1765"