162 Assembly Proceedings, April 4-17, 1759.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 4

man, Mr. Murdock, Mr. Carroll, Mr. Dorsey, and Mr. Dulany, do
prepare and bring in the same.
The House adjourns till the Morrow Morning at Eight of the
Clock.

April S
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Thursday, 5^th April, 1759.
The House met according to Adjournment; The Members were
called, and all appeared as Yesterday. The Proceedings were Read.
Mr. Dent and Mr. Mauldin appeared in the House.
Mr. Murdock brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, an Address
to the Governor; which was Read the first Time, and Ordered to lie
on the Table.
Ordered, That the Gentlemen continued on the several standing
Committees last Session, be continued thereon this Session.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock.
Post Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
On Motion, the Address to the Governor being Read the second
Time, was approved, and ordered to be Ingrossed.
Col. Tilghman brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the following
ingrossed Address, viz.^t
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; Governor and Commander
in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland :
The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency,
We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Delegates
of the Freemen of Maryland, in Assembly convened, return your
Excellency our Thanks for your Speech at the Opening of this
Session.

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His Majesty's paternal Solicitude, to improve the great and im-
portant Advantages gained the last Campaign, to repair the Disap-
pointment at Ticonderoga, and by vigorous and extensive Efforts
to avert all Dangers which may threaten North-America from any
future Irruptions of the French; and the Confidence he has been
pleased to express, that all his faithful and brave Subjects here
will co-operate with, and second to the utmost, the extraordinary
Succours supplied by the Kingdom of Great-Britain for our Preser-
vation and Defence; demand the warmest Acknowledgments from
every Well-wisher to the British Interest.
Animated by a just Sense of our Duty to the best of Kings, of
Gratitude to our Mother Country, and the powerful Motive of
Security to Ourselves and our Fellow-Subjects, we shall once more
exert our Endeavours to comply with his Majesty's Royal Expecta-
tions, and the Requisitions of his General, signified in the Letters
which you have been pleased to lay before us.