|
|
|
tion took place. At their next meeting in October, they resumed the
Consideration, and most readily came to the Resolutions, which I
have now the honor to inclose, and which I have in Command to
transmit to you, requesting you will lay them before the House of
Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia
I am Sir, with great Respect, your mo: ob.t S.t
Matt: Tilghman
By the Lower House of Assembly.
Friday October 15.th 1773.
|
|
|
|
Original
from Vir-
ginia State
Library.
|
The Order of the Day being read the House took into Considera-
tion the several Letters and other Papers communicated to this
House by the Honourable Speaker and addressed to him by the
Honourable the Speakers of the several Colonies of Virginia, Massa-
chusetts Bay, Connecticut and Rhode Island and resolved Unani-
mously, That this House most cordially accept the Invitation to a
mutual Correspondence and Intercourse with our Sister Colonies
Resolved unanimously, That a standing Committee of Correspon-
dence and Enquiry be appointed to consist of eleven Persons to wit,
The Honourable Matthew Tilghman Esquire, Speaker, John Hall,
Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase, Edward Lloyd,
Matthias Hammond, Josias Beall, Jame Lloyd Chamberlaine, Brice
Thomas Beale Worthington, and Joseph Sim, Esquires any five of
whom to be a Committee whose Business it shall be to obtain the
most early and authentick Intelligence of all such Acts and Resolu-
tions of the British Parliament or Proceedings of Administration
as may relate to or affect the British Colonies in America, and to
keep up and maintain a Correspondence and Communication with
our Sister Colonies respecting these important Considerations, and
the Result of such their Proceedings from Time to Time to lay
before this House
Resolved unanimously That the Speaker of this House transmit
to the Speakers of the different Assemblies of the British Colonies
on this Continent Copies of the above Resolutions. —
Extract from the Journal of the Lower House of
Assembly of the Province of Maryland
p Jn.o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.
|
|
