PROCEEDINGS AND ACTS

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND

At a Session held at Annapolis November 6-November 12, 1746.
Being the Second Session of the Assembly, Elected in 1745.

CHARLES CALVERT, LORD BALTIMORE,
Proprietary.

THOMAS BLADEN,
Governor.

	PROCEEDINGS UPPER HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
	At a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis on Thursday the Sixth Day of November in the Thirty second Year of His Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1746 Present	1746 November 6 U. H. J. Liber No. 34 p. 143
	His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esqr Governor
	[Benjamin Tasker Esqr | Col Edward Lloyd The honourable | Col James Hollyday | Daniel Dulany Esqr Col Charles Hammond | Richard Lee Esqr
	Messrs Key and Bayard from the Lower house acquaint his Ex- cellency that there is a sufficient Number of Members met to make a House and wait his Excellencys Commands Col Lloyd and Richard Lee Esqr are sent to acquaint the Lower house that His Excellency requires the Speaker and the House to attend him in the Upper House The Speaker and the Lower House attend and His Excellency is pleased to make the following Speech Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly Having received a Letter from the Governor of New York mak- ing Application for Provisions for the Forces sent from this Prov- ince, I found myself indispensibly obliged to call you together, tho at this advanced Season, to lay that Letter before you, and to inform you of the unhappy situation Our Troops are in, from being desti-