4 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-May 28, 1737.

U. H. J.
Lib. No. 33

untill Six and desire to know if the time Proposed he Agreeable to
your Honours
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl L. H.

Gott Tilghman attended by the members of this house presents
to his Excellency the. Governor the Address of this House which
follows in these Words

To his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor and Commander in
Chief in & over the Province of Maryland

The Humble Address of the Upper house of Assembly.
Be pleased, Sir, to receive our Sincere and hearty Thanks for your
kind and most Acceptable Speech and Congratulations on the Happy
Marriage of his Royal Highness with a Daughter of the illustrious
House of Saxe Gotha; We cannot mention this Alliance without the
greatest Gratitude and most Dutyfull Acknowledgements of his
Majesties never ceasing Care and Regard for the Protestant Interest
in General and the happiness of his own People in Particular: Nor
can we omitt this Occasion of declaring a Just Sense of Our many
Obligations to Our Lord Proprietary who still to heighten Our Joy

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has been pleased by his very kind and Affectionate Answer to Our
Severall Addresses to leave us no Room to doubt of his Resolved
Perseverence in what may be Agreeable to Our Reasonable and Just
Wishes
Under these Circumstances of happiness as Subjects to the best
of Kings, and Tenants to a Most Indulgent Proprietary, nothing but
what is in Our own Power is wanting to a perfect Completion of Our
Felicity which so much Depends upon the nature of the Laws We live
under that it is impossible We can be too Carefull in Discharge of
Our Great trust; It is true, Your Excellency has not Pointed out to
us, any necessary Subject Matter for Laws, But it is true, that you
have with great Goodness recommended those Valuable Dispositions
of Temper, Moderation Calmness and Candor which is so Absolutely
necessary in every Scene of Life, and more Especially in all Publick
Consultations and Proceedings, nor can We question the sincerity of
your Excellencys Opinion of those Desireable Qualities, Since you
have not failed in the Exercise of them in your own Person during
your happy Administration of this Government; from Our Expe-
rience of your prudent and much to be Commended Conduct We
rest assured of the Performance of Your Generous Profession,
wherever the Prosperity of the Province is in any manner Concerned
Signed by Order of the house R: Tilghman

Adjourned untill two of the Clock in the Afternoon