680 Assembly Proceedings, December 22, 23, 1747.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34

We are Sensible that the French will Embrace every Opportunity
to annoy his Majestys Dominions and Distress his Subjects; and
that It is the indispensible Duty of all Britons to Contribute their
utmost Endeavours to Defeat the Designs of so dangerous an Enemy.
As to Our Own Parts, we assure Your Excellency that nothing
in Our Power shall ever be wanting to demonstrate Our Loyalty
to Our most Gracious Sovereign, or to disappoint the schemes of
his Majestys Enemies against his Sacred Person & Government or
to Our own Security and that of Our fellow Subjects
Benjamin Tasker President
To which address his Excellency was pleased to Return the fol-
lowing Answer
Gentlemen of the Upper house of Assembly I return you thanks
for your kind Address; and am well Satisfied of Your Zeal for his
Majestys Service and the Security of Our fellow Subjects in Gen-
eral as well as the Interest of this Province in Particular
Sam: Ogle
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again According to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
A Message from the Lower house by Mess^rs Sheredine & Sullyvan
By the Lower house of Assembly 23^d December 1747

p. 217

May it please your Honours. The Inclemency of the weather
having Prevented several Gentlemen of this house attending at the
Time mentioned in his Excellency the Governors Proclamation for
meeting this house employed Several Messengers to go for those
Gentlemen, who with any Probability were supposed to be able to
attend, and as those Messengers expect to be paid immediately for
their Trouble and Expences, We propose that Orders be Drawn on
the Treasurer of the Western Shoar by the Clerk of this house Pay-
able to the Messengers or their Order or Orders with which if Your
house concurs those Orders will be Drawn Accordingly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo. H.
The following Message is sent by Col Hammond
By the Upper house of Assembly 23^d Decem^r 1747
Gentlemen This house is willing that the Messengers who were
sent for those Members of Your house, who were prevented by the
Badness of the weather from Attending at the Time of meeting
mentioned in the Governors Proclamation, be paid by an Order or
Orders drawn by the Clerk of Your house on the Treasurer of the
Western Shoar Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.