xii Letter of Transmittal.

the Proceedings of the Council (ibid, XXXII), and the weekly issues of the
Maryland Gazette of Annapolis.

In the introduction will be found summarized the various matters which came
before the sessions of the Assembly held in 1762 and in 1763. There will also
be discussed in detail under their several headings, the more important ques-
tions, most of them controversial, that took up much of the time of these two
sessions. These are: (i) Supply or Assessment bill, (2) Provincial Agent in
Great Britain, (3) Address of the Lower House to the King, (4) Parishes,
churches, and chapels, (5) Schools, (6) Establishment of a College, (7) To-
bacco Inspection Law, (8) Loan Office, (9) Journal of Accounts, (10) Roman
Catholics, (n) Licenses from Ordinaries, (12) Arms and Ammunition, (13)
Indian Affairs, (14) Jonas Green, the Public Printer. There will also be found
in the introduction a note on the (15) source material from which the contents
of this volume have been taken. In the Appendix will be found printed the Sup-
ply or Assessment bill rejected in the Upper House at the 1762 Session, and
many contemporary petitions and papers relating to Assembly affairs. As in the
preceding volumes, where messages and addresses are recorded in the journals
of both houses, if lengthy they are printed in full only in the proceedings of the
house in which they had their origin; if short they are printed in the pro-
ceedings of both houses.

The comprehensive index has been made for the Committee on Publications
by Dr. Elizabeth Merritt. Mrs. Vivian E. Barnes of the staff of the Mary-
land Historical Society has been of great assistance in helping to prepare this
volume of the Archives for the press and in locating the material to be found
in the Appendix.

The next volume of the Archives will be the Proceedings and Acts of the
Assembly, 1764.1765.

Respectfully submitted,

KENT ROBERTS GREENFIELD,
J. HALL PLEASANTS (editor},
RAPHAEL SEMMES,

Committee on Publications.