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The Committee appointed to prepare an Address in Answer to
His Excellencys Speech bring in the following.
To His Excellency Robert Eden Esq.^r Lieutenant General and Chief
Governor in and over the Province of Maryland
The Humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly
May it please your Excellency.
We, His Majestys dutiful and loyal Subjects the Upper House
of Assembly, return your Excellency our Thanks, as well for your
kind and obliging Speech at the opening of this Session, as for
giving us this early opportunity of enacting such Laws as may
promote the general Welfare.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
June 18

We cannot but derive great pleasure and Satisfaction from your
Excellency's Reappointment, and the royal Approbation of your
past Conduct and have the strongest Persuasion your Endeavours
to advance the Prosperity of the Province will continue to be exer-
cised for that very laudable Purpose, and that your Excellency's
good Intentions will be assisted by the Concurrence of the New
Proprietary, and the Guardians of his Minority

Which was Read, approved of and Ordered to be Engrossed

The Engrossed Address being prepared was Read and Assented
to and Signed by Order of the House by the Honb.^le Benedict
Calvert Esq.^r
Ordered that Benedict Calvert Esq.^r, attended by the whole House,
do present the said Address to His Excellency; which was presented
accordingly.
Adjourned until three of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Eodem Die post Meridiem.
This House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as in the Morning.
Adjourned until to Morrow Morning Ten of the Clock.

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Saturday Morning 19.^th June 1773.
The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as yesterday.
Mess.^rs Ridgely and Ward attend with Mess.^rs Walter Tolley, a
Member elected for Baltimore County, and Joseph Gilpin for Cecil
County, to see them Qualified, who take the Oaths to the Govern-
ment appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly, repeat and Sub-
scribe the Abjuration and Test, and then withdraw.

June 19