Maryland ss^t
Att a Session of Assembly held at the Towne and Porte
of Annapolis in Anne Arundell County the 2^d Day of Aprill
in the 5^th yeare of her Ma^tys Raigne &c
Annoq D^m 1706
P'sent in Councill

Original
Journal,
p. I

His Ex^llcy John Seymour Esq^r Cap^t Gen^ll and Governour in
Chiefe in and over this her Ma^tys Province &c.

Thomas Brooke Esq^r Col Francis Jenkins

Robert Smith Esq^r Col Edw^d Lloyd
The hon^ble Col Jno Hamond James Sanders Esq^r

& Col Thomas Ennalls of her Ma^tys Councill.

Came M^r Joseph Hill & M^r James Hays from the House of
Delegates and acquainte his Ex^ncy that theire House was mett
according to her Ma^tys Prorogation
His Ex^ncy Says He will Send for them and acquainte them
with what he has to lay before them
Then his Ex^ncy advised with the Boarde of what he pro-
posed to say to the Gen^ll Assembly at the opening of this
Sessions, and the same being reduced into writing and read
was approved of by the whole Boarde
After which Colonel Haffiond was ordered to go downe to
the House and Comand the Speaker and the Members

to attend his Ex^ncy in Council Mr Speaker and the Members
of the House of Delegates being come up, and admitted into
the Councill Roome His Ex^ncy was pleased thus to bespeake
them.

M^r Speaker & You Gentⁿ Delegates.
Since our Meeting now, is by her Ma^tys especiall Comand, I
doubt not hut the greate good things So earnestly recomended
to your Serious Consideration for the good and Wellfare of
this Province will be unanimously approved of and assented
to by You it's Rep^rsentatives ; That what her Sacred Ma^tye
has so wisely & graciously concerted for your future happi-
ness & grandeur may enrich You and Succeeding Generations.

Gentⁿ
Noe Monarch that ever Swayed the English Scepter has
had a more tender reguard for all her Subjects than her pres-
ent Ma^tye and though She has been engaged in a great

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