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The Governor communicated to M.r Speaker the following Mes-
sage.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
I want Words to express my Thanks in the Form which your very
obliging and Affectionate Address so amply Demands. Your gener-
ous Determination of transacting the Business which may come
before you, with the Moderation I took the Liberty of recommend-
ing in my Speech at the Opening of this Session, will justly entitle
you to the Esteem of your Sovereign, your Lord Proprietary, your
Constituents, and your Governor.
Robert Eden.
M.r Goldsborough, from the Committee of Accounts, acquaints
M,r Speaker that they had made choice of Henry Gassaway, as Clerk
to the Committees. The House approved the Choice, and Ordered
him to be qualified.
M.r Reverdy Ghiselin certified to the House, that he had qualified
John Duckett, as Clerk to the several Committees of the House, in
the usual Manner.
The Petition of the Rector, Vestrymen, and Church Wardens of
Saint Pauls Parish, lying partly in Queen Anns, and partly in Talbot
County; read a second Time, and granted.
Ordered, That M.r E. Tilghman, M.r Hollyday, M.r Wright, and
M.r N. Thomas, do prepare and bring in a Bill according to the
Prayer of said Petition.
M.r Grahame appeared in the House, and added to the Committee
appointed to inspect the Accounts and Proceedings of the Com-
missioners, appointed by virtue of the Act for the Payment of the
Public Claims, for emitting Bills of Credit, and for other Purposes
therein mentioned.
The Petition of Peter Haldimand, read the second Time, and
Leave given to bring in a Bill for his Naturalization, he producing a
Certificate to the House, of his having received the Sacrament in
some Protestant Congregation, and of his having taken the several
Oaths to the Government prescribed by Law, and repeating and
subscribing the Test, agreeable to the Directions of the Act of Parlia-
ment for the Naturalization of foreign Protestants in his Majesty's
Plantations in America.
M.r Reverdy Ghiselin certified to the House that he had qualified
Henry Gassaway, as Clerk to the several Committees of the House,
in the usual Manner.
The Petition of John Scarborough, read the second Time, and
granted. Leave given to bring in a Bill according to Prayer.
M.r Reverdy Ghiselin certified to the House, that he has qualified
James Brooks, as a Committee Clerk in the usual Manner.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Nov. 22
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