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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly,
August 5, 1745 - December 23, 1747,
Volume 44

The forty-fourth volume of the Archives of Maryland series was published in 1925, with Bernard Christian Steiner as the editor, under the direction of the Maryland Historical Society. This volume covers the Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly from August 5, 1745 through December 23, 1747. The appendix contains the Calvert papers from 1745-1747.
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745 U. H. J. Volume 44, p. 2 ... Edmund Jenings Esqr and Colo Hammond are sent to acquaint Liber No. 34 the Lower House his Excellency requires their Attendance in the Upper House immediately The Members of the Lower House attend and his Excellency re quires them to return to their House and make Choice of a Speaker Messrs King and Colvile from the Lower House acquaint his Ex cellency that their House hath made Choice of a Speaker Colo Hammond and Colo Lloyd are sent to Acquaint the Lower House that his Excellency requires their Attendance in the Upper House to present their Speaker for his Approbation The Lower House attend and present Colo Edward Sprigg to his Excellency as their Speaker who is pleased to approve of their Choice and then made the the following Speech [p. 52] Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly Our Meeting at this Time is Occasioned by a Letter I have re ceived from the Governor of New England which shall be laid before You. You will find by it that We are called upon to give Our Assis tance towards securing to the Obedience of Our Sovereign the late Acquisition of Cape Breton, A matter of such Importance not only to the Honour of his Majestys Arms but to the General Interest of Great Britain and the Colonies upon this Continent, that I am per swaded We shall readily Concur in such Measures as will give Evidence of Our Duty to his Majesty and Zeal for the Common Cause This Service requiring the first Place in your Consultations and the speediest Dispatch I shall Postpone the mention of any other matters to you till We have discharged Our Duties upon this Point Messrs Goldsborough and Henry from the Lower House acquaint his Excellency their House hath made Choice of W William Tilgh man as their Clerk and hopes for his Excellencys Approbation with which Choice he declares himself Well pleased Messrs Goldsborough and Henry from the Lower House attend with Mr William Tilghman their Clerk in Order to see him qualified Who takes the several Oaths to the Government required by Law and signs the Abjuration and Test and also takes the Usual Oath of Office Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Nine of the Clock August 6 Tuesday Morning 6 August 1745 This House met again according to Adjournment Present as Yesterday Messrs Hammond and Henry from the Lower House attend with Mr Grundy Pemberton and Thomas Wilkinson Members Elected ...
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• The Upper House. Volume 44, p. 3 ... for Queen Anns County and Mr Parker Selby and Abraham Outten U. H. J. Members elected for Worcester County in Order to see them quali- Liber No. 34 fled, who take the several Oaths to the Government required by Law repeat and sign the Abjuration & Test and then withdrew Messrs Wootton and Mackall from the Lower House attend with Mr John Brome a Member elected for Calvert County in Order to see him Qualified who takes the several Oaths to the Government required by Law repeats and subscribes the Abjuration and Test and then withdrew Benjamin Tasker Esqr attended by the rest of the Members of this House presents to his Excellency the Address of this House which follows in these Words viz— To his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esquire Governor and Com mander in Chief in & over the Province of Maryland The humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly May it please Your Excellency We Beg Leave to return You Our thanks for the Speech you [p. 53] was pleased to make to Us, and to Assure You of Our Readiness to give all the Assistance in Our Power towards securing to the Obedi ence of Our Sovereign the important Acquisition of Cape Breton and on every Occasion to give the strongest Evidence of Our Duty to his Majesty and Zeal for the Common Cause When Your Excellency shall be pleased to mention any other mat ter to Us, We shall consider the same with that Regard that is due to Your Recommendation Benja Tasker, President 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 Messrs Sheredine and Barnes By the Lower House of Assembly 6 August 1745 May it please Your Honours This House hath Appointed Colo Colvil Mr Sheredine W Pember ton Colo Henry and W Barnes a Committee from this House to inspect the Accounts and Proceedings of the Commissioners for Emitting Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly and desire Your Honours to appoint one or more of the Members of Your House to join the said Committee Signed p Order W. Tilghman Cl Lo Ho ...
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• The Upper House. 11 Eodem Die post Meridiem U. H. J. Liber No. 34 Volume 44, p. 11 ... This House met again according to Adjournment Present as in the Morning Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Nine of the Clock Tuesday Morning 20 August 1745 August 20 This House met again according to Adjournment Present as Yesterday A Bill from the Lower House by Mr Hammond and twelve others Entd an Act for raising the Sum of 3000£ Current Money and two Pence Sterl p hhd for his Majestys Service towards sup porting the Garrison of Louisburgh on Cape Breton and for other Purposes therein mentioned thus endorsed By the Lower House of Assembly 17 August 1745 Read the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table Signed p Order Wm Tilghman Cl Lo Ho. By the Lower House of Assembly 19 August 1745 Read the second time and will pass Signed p Order Wm Tilghman Cl Lo Ho. Read the first time in this House and Ordered to lie on the Table. 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 Bill from the Lower House by Messrs Bordley and Mills entd an Act continuing an Act entituled an Act for the speedy and effec tual Publication of the Laws of this Province and for the encourage ment of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis Printer thus endorsed By the Lower House of Assembly 19 August 1745 Read the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table Signed p Order Wm Tilghman Cl Lo Ho. By the Lower House of Assembly 20 August 1745 Read the second time and will pass. Signed p Order Wm Tilghman Cl Lo Ho. Read the second time by Especial Order the Bill Entituled an Act for raising the sum of 3000 ll current Money and two Pence Sterling p hhd for his Majestys Service towards supporting the Garrison at Louisburgh in Cape Breton and for other Purposes therein men tioned and with the Amendments proposed in a Message herewith ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. U. H. J. Volume 44, p. 12 ... sent will Pass and sent to the Lower House by Colo Lloyd and Liber No. 34 Benjamin Young Esqr By the Upper House of Assembly 20 August 1745 [p. 60 ] Gentlemen The Bill entituled an Act for raising the Sum of £3000 Current Money and two Pence Sterling p hhd for his Majestys Service to wards supporting the Garrison of Louisburgh on Cape Breton and for other Purposes therein mentioned will pass this House with the following Alterations & Amendments 1st That the Words, and Two Pence Sterling p hhd and for other purposes therein mentioned be left out in the Title 2dly That as the Bill directs that a Letter should be Wrote to and Answer received from Governor Shirley before any Provisions are to be purchased, We Conceive so much time will be spent herein as to Render the Provisions intended for Louisburgh Garrison inef fectual either by their being otherwise Provided for, or the Lateness of the Season, so as the Frost may hinder Our Provision being trans ported thither; Besides the Share the Bill gives the Governor in this Transaction is of so Triffling a Nature and couched in such Expres sions, that We must desire this part of the Bill may be so Altered that the Provisions may be forthwith purchased, and that the Commsrs Appointed for that Purpose may receive their directions from time to time from the Governor who we all must have the greatest Reason to be satisfied will with the utmost Chearfulness take Care of the due Execution by such Measures as may be most for the service of the Garrison & Reputation of this Province And We must imagine it to be more proper to put this Matter under his Excellencys direction, as his Majesty will look on him and other Governors, particularly Obliged by the Duty of their Station to be more than ordinarily Sol licitous in their Endeavours for his Service in this Affair, But it is our Opinion And We hope it will likewise be yours upon further Consid eration that it will be more for the Benefit of the Service intended to lay out the Money designed in good Bills of Exchange to be re mitted to Governor Shirley for the Use of the Garrison at Louisburgh, since it is evident it will save both time and Expence, and he (as the Bill supposes) is best acquainted with what will be most neces sary for that Purpose That instead of the several Returns and Accounts directed by the Bill to be laid before the House of Delegates they should be directed to be laid before the next General Assembly 3dly Altho' the Bill seems to intend some Powder and Ball for Louisburgh Garrison Yet no Clause appears in the Bill to direct how the Powder & Ball are to be preserved and therefore a Clause is necessary to be incerted for that Purpose unless You come into Our Proposal for sending the Bills of Exchange which will render such a Clause and several other Clauses in the Bill unnessary ...
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• The Upper House. Eodem Die post Meridiem U. H. J. Liber No. 34 Volume 44, p. 15 ... This House met again according to Adjournment Present as in the Morning The Bill entituled an Act for raising the Sum of £3000 Current Money and two Pence Sterling p hhd for his Majestys Service towards supporting the Garrison of Louisburgh on Cape Breton and for other Purposes therein mentioned is brought from the Lower House by Mr Hammond and twelve others with the following Message By the Lower House of Assembly 22 August 1745 May it please Your Honours [p. 63] You have herewith the Bill Entituled an Act for raising the sum of £3000 Current Money and two Pence Sterling p hhd for his Majestys Service towards supporting the Garrison of Louisburgh on Cape Breton and other Purposes therein mentioned returned to You with such Amendments proposed in Your Message of Yesterday as could be made without Altering the Material or Substantial Parts of that Bill and as to any other Alterations or Amendments, We have not nor can agree thereto, as well because We conceive it to be the undoubted Right of the House of Delegates alone to raise upon the People of this Province any Sum of Money or other Tax, and for such Time and in such manner and to be applied to such Uses and Purposes as that House shall think proper, and that Your House have no right to propose any Alteration or Amendments, as to sum time uses or Substance or otherwise to interpose concerning the substantial or material parts of such Bills then generally to pass or refuse the same as because in the particular Instance of this Bill We are well Satisfied these Amendments proposed by you, other than what We have agreed to and made accordingly are some of them entirely unnecessary as not in any wise productive of those ends for which you would seem to propose them and others of them tend to lessen that Advantage which may undoubtedly be made for the Garrison of Louisburgh in the manner that Bill now stands We little expected You would have given it under Your Hands ....
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. U. H. J. Volume 44, p. 16 .. And altho' We readily admit that a Fund for the Support of such Liber No. 34 Agent was not that part of his Majestys Service which gave rise to that Bill Yet are we Confident that from his Majestys tender Regard for his People if while We are endeavouring to support his Subjects at Louisburgh, We can likewise take any Step to preserve his Loyal and Dutiful Subjects of this Province or to restore them to their former Ease and Happiness it must be highly agreable to his Royal Pleasure; nor can We entertain the Worse Opinion of this Bill as it now stands from the Expressions in Your Message of blending or tacking two different matters in the same Bill, and Unparliamentary and Unjust and Violent Proceedings for We beg Leave to deny that this is tacking, or if it is, Yet it is not a Tacking in an Unpar liamentary manner, because if We may call our Proceedings in Assembly here Parliamentary as We presume We may infer, as the Legislative Power of this Province may direct themselves by them, We have Instances of several Bills having within these few Years been passed into Laws by the several parts of this Legislature each Bill containing several matters and to entirely distinct Purposes without any such Charge against them as You are now pleased to [p. 64] make against this Bill and from Whence too We apprehend We may justly Conclude that such a proceeding is not an unjust & Violent Proceeding Nor can We by means agree to what You term an Undoubted Truth in General that such who have offered to Clog any Bill by a Tack, were always thought Enemies or ill Wishers to such Bill and those who refused the Bill on Account of such Unpar liamentary Steps, And to Our particular Motive for such proceeding We apprehend Ourselves justified by the Practice here, and from the Nature of the matter it self as well as by the Necessity We are reduced to of some such Method, by your Honours having hereto fore refused us the subject matter of that which you are pleased to call a Tack when sent you in a seperate Bill, Thô the Circum stances of his Majestys Subjects the People of this Province were such as loudly called for some such Assistance; And We assure Your Honours that when the Affair of Louisburgh was first recommended to Our Consideration, We had not this matter within Our View, nor had We any other Motive than our hearty and unfeigned Loyalty and Zeal for his Service for those proceedings which We then so Unanimously and Chearfully agreed upon as We doubt not will render the same more acceptable to his Majesty, And We will Ven ture to Promise, that We will at all times be ready to the best of Our Abilities to go as far in any Step for his Majestys Service as Your Honours or any other Persons whatever shall, and in this Instance further than You seem willing to do, And We are not without the strongest Assurances that as the several Purposes of that Bill are by no means inconsistent or contradictory, but both tend to the Care and Preservation of his Majestys Service which undoubtedly is for his
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• The Upper House. Volume 44, p. 17 .. Service and will as the more Extensive be therefore the more agre- U. H. J. able to his Royal Will and Pleasure, so we do now for the last time [Liber No. 34] leave it to your Determination Whether You will pass the Bill as it now stands or for the sake of destroying the latter part of that Bill calculated for the Benefit of his Majestys Subjects of this Province prevent likewise that considerable Aid for his Garrison at Louisburgh which We have so chearfully resolved to give Signed p Order Wm Tilghman Cl Lo Ho. Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Nine of the Clock Friday Morning 23 August 1745 August 23 This House met again according to Adjournment Present as Yesterday A Bill from the Lower House by Messrs Selby and Oughton Entd A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled an Act to enable the Commrs therein named to lay out forty Acres of Land into 80 Lotts for a Town on Indian River in Worcester County as also for forty Acres of Land into Eighty Lotts at the head of Asseateague Creek at a Place commonly called the Trap for a Town thus endorsed By the Lower House of Assembly 21 August 1745 Read the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table Signed p Order Wm Tilghman Cl Lo Ho. By the Lower House of Assembly 22 August 1745 Read the second time and will pass 65 Signed p Order Wm Tilghman Cf Lo Ho. 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 The Bill entituled an Act for raising the sum of 3000£ Current Money and two Pence Sterling p hhd for his Majestys service to wards supporting the Garrison of Louisburgh on Cape Breton and for the Purposes therein mentioned is read Again and will not pass and sent to the Lower House with the following Message by Daniel Dulany Esqr and Colo Tasker. By the Upper House of Assembly 23 August 1745 Gentlemen The Reasons You are pleased to give why you cannot agree with Our Amendments are first because you conceive it to be the un doubted Right of the House of Delegates alone to raise upon the People any sum of Money or other Tax &ca This We conceive to be a most extraordinary Claim and such as no House of Commons ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. U. H. J. Volume 44, p. 18 .. ever made; but when a small part of that House by the most Violent [Liber No. 34] Means usurped the whole Authority as well Legislative, as Execu tive, which is such a Precedent as We hope You will not think for your Purpose, had You been pleased to have contented Yourselves with Asserting that it was your undoubted Right to begin a Money Bill in your House, We could at this time for the sake of dispatch, forborn to have made any Observation on such an Assertion, But We hope You will not think We act beside Our Duty in letting you know what Objections We have to any Money Bills, so that you may if they are reasonable remove them and make the Bill proper for its passage here Secondly You say some of the Amendments are unnecessary, and others tend to lessen the Advantage which may bç made for the Garrison of Louisburgh, As You do not Particu larize which of them, and why they are unnecessary We cannot be Satisfied barely by such a General Allegation that they are so; and as to the other Part of a Proposal of Expediting Our intended sup ply of Provision so as not to be prevented by the frost or remitting A Sum of Money immediately without Loss of time or Expence of Commission and Charges can tend to lessen any Advantage for the Garrison of Louisburgh We must Acknowledge Ourselves mistaken in Judgment We did Assent in Our former Message on the Subject of this Bill and now avowedly repeat, that the Establishing a Fund for raising a Sum of Money for the Support of an Agent is foreign to his Majestys Service in general and were we inclinable to enter into the reasoning You have made use of on this Occasion We might prove beyond any reasonable Contradiction that the Agency designed by the Bill would be so far preserving or procuring Ease and tran quility to his Subjects that it would be the greatest foundation of disturbances in this Province but it is sufficient for us to say that in Parliamentary Language on the subject of any Money Bill no Clause was ever lookt on as relative to his Majestys Service, or proper for such Bill which did not either immediately grant Money [p. 66] to his Majesty or to his Use or was an Appendix to some other Bill which had before Granted Money to his Majesty, And when any Instance can be produced contrary to this Observation, We shall own our Assertion to be as improper as Yours of your House having alone the Right to raise Money The same Arguments by which you urge this Agency to be for his Majestys Service, may prove every Suit at Law between private Persons for the Recovery of a Debt, to be also for his Májestys Service since it tends to the quietness & Satisfaction of his Subjects, perhaps in a more eminent manner than this Agency would do, And yet it must be Granted that a Man would not thought to know what he said, if he should think his Majestys Service concerned in almost thing that happened in Society ...
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• The Upper House. Volume 44, p. 19 .. At the same time that We stiled this Blending or tacking two [U. H. J. Liber No. 34] different matters in the same Bill an Unparliamentary Unjust and Violent Proceedings We gave you our Reasons for it and could have supported them by the concurrent Opinion of some of the greatest Men in Parliament, but you save us this trouble by a tacit Admission, for you only deny it is tacking of if it is. Yet it is not tacking in an Unparliamentary way, how You can prove it is not tacking We are still at a Loss to know for you have not nor can shew one Reason to support Your Negative, And We must do you the Justice to believe You did not mean We should understand you to be so much in Earnest in the Denial as to abide by it since You took care to couple it with a Reserve viz It is not a Tacking in an Unpar liamentary manner; and You endeavour to Justify your proceedings to be Parliamentary by Precedents of Our own Legislature. In the first Place You do not name the Precedents, so We can give no Answer to them It is strange you should in the first part of your Message expect a strict Conformity to Parliamentary proceedings with Re gard to Our Interposition in a Money Bill, and yet in this Part knowing the Usage of Parliament to be against You. You have re course to Proceedings of our own Assembly, and slights those of Parliament, But Gentlemen neither Ourselves or our Province are too Old or knowing not to be taught by the wise Legislature of Great Britain, and notwithstanding there were many Precedents in Our Assemblies (tho at present We cannot recollect any to Your Purpose.) Yet if what We insist on is at seems by your Message confessed right & supported not only by Parliamentary Proceedings, but by the Reasons in Our last Message which you have not dis proved We shall think Our Behaviour in this matter will satisfie Although you not agree in Express terms to so plain & almost self evident a Proposition, as that such who have offered to clog any Bill with a Tack were always thought Enemies ill Wishers to such Bill, yet not only Your own Reasons herein before taken notice of, but more especially those which follow the strongest Proof of that Ob servation with Regard to that Conduct on this Bill. You alledge the Necessity you were reduced to by the Refusal of this House heretofore to pass that Bill if this House had before refused to pass that Bill how could Your strong and frequent professions of Leige Subjects Loyalty Zeal and Duty to his Majestys Service, permit you to Clog this Bill with any matter which you must be sure would be an impediment to its Passage And now Gentlemen permit Us in Our turn to say that We little [p. 67] expected You would have Given under Your hands such plain Hints as to let us into Your Scheme of making this Tack for You assure Us that when the Affair of Louisburgh was first recommended to your Consideration you had not this Matter within your View, if so, ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. U. H. J. A Volume 44, p. 20 ... little Reflection on Your Proceedings may perhaps account how [Liber No. 34] this Agency afterwards came to Your View The Governor acquainted Us in his Speech, that he should lay nothing before Us till We had discharged Our Duty to his Majesty on this Point of A supply for Louisburgh, on Wednesday the third day of your Sitting you Voted 2000£ Our Paper Money for Louisburgh Garrison and after making a private Committee of Ways and Means, tho every Body knew the Money must be taken (as it is Ordered by the Bill) out of the Loan Office, Yet thus stood the Bill till Tuesday afterwards, when the Governor was pleased to press You to a dispatch of it, but the very next day You resolved to add a Clause in the Bill for raising a Fund for the Payment of an Agent We shall for the sake of Decency forbear making any further Re mark than that this Business seemed at first to be carried on not with the greatest forwardness or chearfulness, but when above a whole Week had been spent and no Bill framed and the Governor appeared so Zealous & urgent in his Majestys Service as that a further delay could not be coloured with any Pretence then We suppose this Clause of an Agent (no other Expedient offering for the Purpose was thought of in Order to Obstruct and even destroy the whole Bill Upon the whole Gentlemen We conceive the Provision intended for Louisburgh Garrison will not in all probability in the manner the Bill provides be procured time enough to serve that Place We conceive this Tack or Clog to be Unparliamentary and unjust and of a Violent Tendency and therefore We have Absolutely re fused to pass the Bill Signed p Order J Ross Cl Up Ho. Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Nine of the Clock August 24 Saturday Morning 24 August 1745 This House met again according to Adjournment Present IBenjamin Tasker Esqr - Daniel Dulanv Esqr the honble Colo Hollyday Richard Lee Esqr Colo Hammond Adjourned till Monday Morning nine of the Clock August 26 Monday Morning 26 August 1745 This House met again according to Adjournment Present Benj. Tasker Esqr Daniel Dulany Esqr Colo Plater Colo Lloyd the honble Edmund Jenings Esqr Benj. Young Esqr Colo Hammond Colo Tasker Philip Thomas Esqr Richard Lee Esqr ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. U. H. J. 10. Volume 44, p. 56 ... An Act to enable the Commissary General to enter and record Liber No. amongst the Records of his Office the last Will and Testament of Henry Staples deceased for the Purposes therein mentioned 11. An Act for Settlement of Lands therein mentioned on Francis Warren & the Heirs of his Body lawfully Begotten 12. An Act to direct and impower the Clerk of Prince Georges County to enter and Record among the Records of the said County a Deed of Bargain & Sale from John Nevill Wm Collyer and Thomas Bond to John Boyd of a Tract of Land therein mentioned 13. An Act for ascertaining the Allowance of Petit Jurors at tending the Provincial Court and to limit costs with respect to evidence 14. An Act for laying out one Acre of Land convenient to Rock Creek Landing on Potomack River on the Land where George Gor don now lives on and for Building a rolling House thereon 15. An Act for the Gauge of Barrells for Pork Beef Pitch Tar and Turpentine and Tare of Barrells for Flour and Bread All which his Excellency passed into Laws in the usual form by Sealing them with the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietarys Great Seal at Arms & subscribing them On behalf of the Right hoñble the Lord Propry of this Province I will this be a Law The following Engrossed Bills were likewise presented to his Excellency by the Speaker viz. An Act for laying an Imposition on Tobacco and other Commodi ties therein mentioned for the discharge of his Lordships Quit Rents & support of Governmnt An Act for the Trial of all matters of fact in the Several Counties where they have arisen or shall arise An Act for the Limitation of Officers fees An Act to divide Dorchester and Queen Anns Counties and to erect a new County out of the Upper Parts thereof by the name of Prince William County An Act to divide Prince Georges County and to erect a new one by the name of Frederick County Which his Excellency pleased to lay by as of them he would be advised & then made the following Speech Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly My Duty to his Majesty and Zeal for his Service induced me to call you together near a Month sooner than the time to which you were prorogued in Expectation that You would have shewn Your selves by your Actions to be the dutiful and Loyal Subjects which you have professed yourselves on every Occasion by making a speedy Provision proportioned to the Circumstances of this Province to wards the Defence and security of his Majestys Garrison at Louis- ...
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• The Upper House. Volume 44, p. 57 ... burgh, I had every Reason to be perswaded that You would have U. H. J. followed the Example of all the neighbouring Colonies & chearfully Liber No. 34 embraced so favourable an Opportunity to demonstrate to all your fellow Subjects that Your Loyalty did not consist in bare Profes sions only, and that nothing might interrupt you in the discharge of your Duty on that Occasion I acquainted you in my Speech when We met that I would not propose anything else to your Consideration till We should have discharged Our Duty on the Point which brought Us together, In your Address which by the Bye is in a Stile remarkable in itself and peculiar to some Penman in Your House, you gave me the strongest Assurance of your Loyalty to his Majesty and zeal to the common Cause according to your usual Custom, In these professions I am perswaded many in your House were sincere and spoke the Real Sentiments of their Hearts and every man who wishes well to his Country cannot but lament that the Influence of a few designing Men who have nothing less in their View than the Public Welfare should divert the honest and well meaning from the pursuit of what may be of real Advantage to the People they repre sent, if these Men had discovered themselves by openly declaring against doing any thing for his Majestys Service or discharging the Duty of Loyal Subjects I am sure they would have met with the Contempt from a Majority of your House which such a Behaviour would have justly deserved In his Situation therefore these most Dutiful and Loyal Liege Subjects thought it their best Policy to be very lavish of and loud in their usual Professions of Zeal for his Majestys Services that they might have an Opportunity the better to impose on those who meant well & Obstruct every thing that should be proposed for the Good of that Service they were met upon In View of effecting this Scheme a Committee was appointed to Con sider of Ways and Means to raise Money to supply the Garrison of Louisburgh then a Bill framed wherein to furnish a Pretence for spending the time a very long Act was needlessly recited and the Bill itself so contrived as to render the Execution of it very difficult if not impracticable and entirely useless to the Purposes designed by it in doing this the time was taken up from the 5th to the 20 of August and that it was thus mispent with intent to render the supply which ought to have been given immediately of no real Use if the more favourite Scheme of making a Provision at all should not succeed is evident to me and I think must appear so to every one who is acquainted with the Circumstances of the Country as every Man who is so cannot but know that the only way of raising Money im mediately was by taking it out of the Paper Money Office where it lay ready and which might have been done in a day or two as well as Months or Years and wherein no time ought to have been lost, because the Nature of the service required the utmost dispatch and the means of replacing the Money might have been considered and provided for at Leisure but lest these Contrivances should not have ...
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• The Upper House. Volume 44, p. 59 ... of that Power which You have declared in a Message and Resolution U. H. J. you are invested with shall think fit A Power which the House of [Liber No. 34] Commons in England makes no Claim to, And to Obviate any Pre tence of representing it in a wrong Light I will use your own Words in your Message wherein You declare you conceive it to be the un doubted Right of the House of Delegates alone to raise upon the People of this Province any Sum of Money or other Tax and for such time and in such manner and to be applied to such uses as that House shall think proper, And You have likewise resolved that it is the undoubted right of the House of Delegates to raise on the People of this Province any sum of Money or other Tax and for such time and in such manner and to such uses and Purposes as to them shall seem proper this is a stretch of Power unknown to a British Constitution and by what Authority or upon what Pretensions You have made it Yourselves only can tell if this Project of an Agent should ever succeed it would answer a very necessary purpose to the Province vizt furnishing a very plausible pretence of rendering no Account of considerable sums, amounting as I am informed to above four hundred Pounds sterl raised several Years since by pri vate Subscriptions on pretence of defraying the Expence of bring ing some Complaints which the County has been long amused and [p. 99] inflamed with to a decision in England and altho much less than half the Money already subscribed would have been Sufficient for the end to which it was pretended to be Raised not one single Publick Step is yet taken to bring the Complaints to any issue or Determina tion, nor is it to be imagined by any sensible Man who will make Use of his Reason that the Managers ever intended there should be any Determination of them During these Transactions and this Waste of time in your House the People without Doors were Exasperated that no Supplies were given for the Defence of Louisburgh as well as at the Probability that no Business would be done and that the Country would be run to a great and fruitless Expence which Alarmed the Managers and made them think it necessary to en deavour to Pacify them to this end an Inclination is dissembled to Carry on the Publick Business and a Conference was proposed to the Upper House to settle Officers Fees, which was readily agreed to and Conferees appointed to these some Members of your House were joyned who had for several Years industriously endeavoured to inflame and keep up the unhappy differences w'hich have too long subsisted in the Country wherein they have been but too successful this Choice of your Conferees gave every Man who was anxious for and sincerely wished the Publick Welfare a very bad Prospect of the Event and these Gentlemen acted as it was Expected & fore seen tho' they behaved plausibly for some time in View as I have Reason to believe to gain time to send me two unmannerly Addresses one about the Pound of Tobacco p taxable Levied in Virtue of the ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. U. H. J. Volume 44, p. 60 ... Militia Law which tho' it was evidently in force as any Law in the [Liber No. 34] Country Yet a Majority of your House were deluded into a Belief that it did not exist, but was expired many Years since, merely to have a Pretence to abuse a lawful Act of the Governmt And the other about fines and forfeitures in hopes of Provoking me to resent such treatments as it really deserved & thereby to obstruct all Publick Business but when this Scheme failed of Success the Gentlemen pulled of the Mask and Acted in Characters manifesting by their Conduct that they dreaded nothing more than that the minds of the People should be quieted and all pretence of uneasiness removed, as being Conscious to themselves that they would soon appear in their proper Colours & lose that influence over the People which has actually Cost the Country above ten thousand Pounds of this Cur rency and to the Continuance of which pernicious Influence every desirable thing for the Peoples happiness was to be sacrificed, this appeared so evidently that Your House appointed another Confer ence and chose new Conferees who with those of the Upper House soon setled every thing to the mutual Satisfaction of every Body wherein so many and great Concessions were made by the Upper House as exceeded the hopes of the most sanguine among You the uneasiness which these Proceedings Occasioned in the Gentlemen who opposed them was too manifest to be Concealed they then made use of all the Artifices and false suggestions to defeat every step that could be taken to Establish a happy Union between the Governmt and People and shewed the firmest Resolution and most unweared Application to sacrifice the Repose happiness and Interest of their Constituents to the Pride and Wicked Ambition of being Leaders of a Party I cannot omit mentioning to You Abuse of Power which you exercised in a most Extraordinary manner which was such in turning out Members of your House who were duly returned upon pretence of an undue Election but against whom no Petition was offered, And in another Instance You proceeded Contrary to the Practice & Determination of your own House in the like Case and in the face of an Express Act of Assembly these Proceedings would have laid me under the necessity of immediately putting an end to a [p. 100] Power so unwarrantably exercised if the supplies for Louisburgh Garrison and other supplies for the quiet and happiness of the Prov ince had not these been under Your Consideration I cannot avoid another Observation that you have refused the Yeas and Nays to be taken on several Questions contrary to a standing Rule of your house and you have against all Parliamentary Proceedings hindred Motions & Questions to be entred on your Journal which could pro ceed from no other Motive than a Conviction that your Proceedings were such as you were unwilling to submit to the Censure of your Constituents not content with these Extraordinary Steps you have been pleased to assume and Usurp an Arbitrary Power over his Majestys Subjects in sending for Magistrates keeping them in Cus ...
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• The Lower House. Volume 44, p. 65 ... that House, shall be to you directed, the Secrets of the said House [L. H. J.] you shall not divulge to the Prejudice of the House, or any Member Liber No. 46 thereof, but shall in all Things, as Clerk to the said House, well and truly demean your self, according to the best of your Knowl edge. So help you God. Mr Speaker communicates to the House the Letter refer'd to in the Governour's Speech, from Governour Shirley of New England, which was ordered to be read, and is as followeth. Boston July 3. 1745 Sr I have now the Pleasure to send your Honour by Express the News of the Reduction of Louisburg to the Obedience of his Maj esty, & the Surrender of it accordingly; but to maintain our Con quest there which is of the utmost Importance, will require the Assistance of all his Majesty's Colonies & Provinces in North America for furnishing Men Ammunition and Provisions for Gar risoning and defending the Place ‘till his Majesty shall order Troops from Great Britain or otherwise signify his Pleasure in this Affair. And I apprehend this to be the most critical Juncture for securing it from the Attempts of the Enemy to recover it, For it cannot be doubted, but that the French King will soon send a strong Force both of Ships & Troops to reduce it, before we can well be secured in the Possession of it; And you may reasonably Judge that this Province is already drained of Men, Provisions, and Ammunition: However we are still so heartily engaged in this Service that we have lately sent four hundred Troops who I suppose arrived at Louisburg since the Surrender of it, besides upwards of sixty Sea men for Manning his Majesty's Ship Vigilant & have about two Hundred Soldiers more embarked and ready to embark whom I shall get away with all possible Dispatch, And I cannot but hope your Honour and the General Assembly of Maryland will in Duty to his Majesty & in Regard to the common Interest of all his Sub jects in North America make Provision for the raising a number of Soldiers immediately for this Service & have them transported [p. 447] without Delay, and likewise give Orders for the taking up and pur chasing all the Gun Powder and Provisions that can be got for the Garrison at Louisburg & the Ships employed there, of both which they are in want, as the General & Commodore inform me as also Provisions for the French Prisoners to be sent Home to France. And as this will require a vast Quantity of Provisions especially. It is my Opinion that no Provisions ought to be allowed to be shipped off from the Plantations where they are raised, to the West Indies, or any foreign Parts whatsoever till this want be supplied, It will likewise be requisite that all the Gun Powder that can be found in your Province, except what may be absolutely necessary for your own Defence, should be secured for his Majesty's Service, and I should think if your Honour will employ some Merchants in ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. L. H. J. Volume 44, p. 66 ... your Place for the purchasing of the Powder who will be able to Liber No. 46 find it out better than your own Officers, it will be most likely to be furnished with a good Quantity of it of which this Province is almost entirely exhausted, having sent off for the Expedition agt Louisburg about twelve Hundred Barrels, & I hope you will consider that both the Garrison & Ships will want a considerable Supply I am with great Regard Sir Your Honours most obedient humble Servant W. Shirley The House appoint Mr Thomas Jobson Serjeant at Arms, and Thomas Sparrow Door Keeper, and ordered that Robert Gordon Esqr administor to them the several Oaths to the Government re quired by Law, and the Oath of Office. The House adjourns until the Morrow Morning 9 of the Clock. August 6 Tuesday morning, Aug. 6th 1745 The House met according to Adjournment. All members present as Yesterday. The Proceedings of yesterday were read. Capt. Gordon acquaints Mr Speaker, that Mr Thomas Jobson Serjeant at Arms, took the several Oath to the Government required by Law, signed the Oath of Abjuration, repeated and signed the Test, and that he took the following Oath of Office, viz. You Thomas Jobson do swear, that you will faithfully, diligently, and honestly discharge the Office of Serjeant at Arms to the Lower House of Assembly; and that you shall not disclose or reveal the Secrets thereof. So help you God. Capt. Gordon likewise acquaints Mr Speaker that Thomas Spar row Door Keeper to the House, took the several Oaths to the Gov ernment required by Law, signed the Oath of Abjuration, and repeated and signed the Test, and that he took the following Oath of Office viz. You Thomas Sparrow do swear, that you will faithfully, dili gently and honestly discharge the Office of Door Keeper to the Lower House of Assembly; and that you shall not disclose or reveal the secrets thereof. So help you God. Resolved, That the Hours of sitting, this Session, be from 9 to 12 in the morning, and from 2 to 5 in the Afternoon. The House proceeds to appoint the following Committees, viz. Doctor Carroll, W George, Col. Colvil, Mr Stoughton, Mr Philip Hammond, Mr Robert Lloyd, Mr Nicholas Goldsborough, Col. Hooper, and Major Henry Hall, a Committee of Laws Mr George Wilison, Mr Smallwood, Mr Worthington, Mr John Gresham, Mr John Goldsborough, Capt. Ennalls and Mr Courts, a Committee of Elections and Privileges ...
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• The Lower House. 71 Post Meridiem L. H. J. Liber No. 46 Volume 44, p. 71 .. The House met according to Adjournment [p.450] The following message. (See page 3) Was sent to the Upper House by Maj. Sherredine and Mr Barns. Upon reading the Petition of Mr Stephen Bordley complaining of an undue Election and Return for the City of Annapolis Resolved, That the merits of the said Election be heard at the Bar of the House, and that this House will proceed thereupon on Friday next. And Ordered, that the sitting member and the Petitioner, exchange Lists of the controverted Votes, and that those Lists be confined to such Votes as were objected to on the Scrutiny, at the Time of Elec tion, and State the Objection against each Vote that they design to insist upon. Richard Lee Esqr from the Upper House, delivers Mr Speaker the following Message. (See page 4) William Stoughton Esqre from the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice, informs Mr Speaker that the Committee had appointed Mr Edward Dorsey, their Clerk. The House approves the Choice, Major Henry Hall is ordered to qualify Mr Edward Dorsey, as Clerk to the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice. Major Hall acquaints Mr Speaker, that he had qualified Mr Ed ward Dorsey, by administring to him the Oaths to the Government, causing him to sign the Oath of Abjuration, to repeat and sign the Test, and take the Oath of Office. Mr Green, Printer, is permitted to print the Votes and Resolves of this House, at the Allowance usually made. The House adjourns until the Morrow Morning 9 of the Clock. Wednesday Morning, August 7. 1745. August 7 The House met according to Adjournment. All Members present as yesterday. The Proceedings of yesterday were read. William Stoughton Esqr brings in an Address to the Governour, on his Speech, which was read, approved of, and ordered to be engrossed. Resolved, That the Sum of two Thousand Pounds Current money of this Province, shall be raised and applied to his Majesty's Service, to be laid out in Provisions for Support of his Majesty's Garrison of Louisburg at Cape Breton; and that Col. King Mr Wootton, Majr Sherredine, Mr Worthington Dr Buchanan, Mr Philip Hammond, and Dr Carroll, be a Cothmittee to find out proper Ways and Means, how the said Sum shall be raised; and that they make their Report thereof to this House The House adjourns until 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. L. H. J. Post Meridiem Liber No. 46 Volume 44, p. 72 ... The House met according to Adjournment The following engrossed Address to his Excellency the Gov ernonr, viz. To his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esqr Governour of Maryland. The Humble Address of the House of Delegates of the said Province May it please your Excellency p. We his Majestys most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Delegates of the Freemen of Maryland in this present General Assembly con vened, take leave to acknowledge the Favour of your Excellency's Speech at the Opening of this Session; and your Goodness in com municating to us Governour Shirley's Letter, whereby we have the pleasing news of the Reduction of Louisburg on Cape Breton to his Majesty's Obedience; An Acquisition of the greatest Consequence to, and which does Honour to the Northern Colonies, who, tho' they in Conjunction with a Part of his Majesty's Navy have obtained the Glory of taking, may yet, without some present Assistance from the neighbouring Governments, be incapable of holding that important Conquest; as it is not doubted but the French King, our com mon Enemy, will with a suitable Force, endeavour to regain it. We shall therefore, to manifest our unfeigned Duty and Loyalty to His Majesty (altho' by his gracious condescension exempted from the least Demand,) proceed to raise such a Support for the protecting and securing the City of Louisburg against any Attempt of the Enemy, in such manner as the indigent Circumstances of our Con stituents will admit: And shall likewise, for Dispatch, allow this Proceeding the first place in our Consultations; and in Complyance with our Duty, also carry on with due order and Circumspection, every other Branch of Business that lays properly before us, altho' not recommended by your Excellency: And act and do in every Re spect, the Duty of good Subjects, faithful Representatives, and true Lovers of our Country. Being prepared, was ordered, on Behalf of the House, to be signed by the Honourable Speaker; which being done, Ordered, That Col. King, and Major Henry Hall acquaint his Excellency that this House hath prepared an Address to his Excellency, on his Speech, and desires to know when and where he will be pleased to receive it: They return, and acquaint Mr Speaker, the Governour will receive it in half an Hour, in the Conference Chamber, Col. King, with thirteen others, sent to present the Address to his Excellency: They return, and acquaint Mr Speaker they have presented the Address. Mr Joseph Hall, a returned Member for Calvert County, and Mr William Wilkinson, a returned Member for Charles County, appear in the House. Mr Brome and Mr Mackall sent ...
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• The Lower House. May it please Your Excellency L. H. J. Volume 44, p. 77 ... We beg leave to represent to your Excellency, that as the several [Liber No. 46] Naval Officers of this Province, do, by Virtue of sundry Acts of Assembly, collect large sums of Money for the use of the Publick, we pray your Excellency will be pleased to acquaint us whether they give any Bond for the due Execution of their Offices, and if any, where lodged: As also to cause the same, or authentic Copies thereof, to be laid before this House. Being prepared, was ordered, on Behalf of the House to be signed by the Honourable Speaker; which being done; William Stoughton Esqr and Mr Bordley, are sent to acquaint the Governour that this House hath prepared an Address to his Excellency, and desires to know, when and where he will be pleased to receive it: They return and acquaint Mr Speaker, he will receive it immediately in the Con ference Chamber. William Stoughton Esqr and Mr Bordley, are sent to present the Address. They return, and acquaint Mr Speaker they have presented it. Col. King from the Committee to find out Ways and means for raising the Sum of two Thousand Pounds Current Money of Mary land, and applying the same to his Majesty's Service for Support of the Garrison of Louisburg at Cape Breton; brings in a Report; which was read, and ordered to lie on the Table, ‘til the Committee appointed to inquire into the State and Condition of the Arms and Ammunition, and Accounts relating thereto, bring in their Report. The House adjourns ‘til To Morrow Morning 9 of the Clock. Tuesday Morning August 13. 1745 . August 13 The House met according to Adjournment. All Members present as Yesterday. The Proceedings of yesterday were read. Mr Lecompte, a returned member for Dorchester County, appears in the House. Capt. Ennalls and Capt. Dennis, are sent to the Upper House to see him qualified: They return and say they saw him qualified, by taking the several Oaths to the Government required by Law, sign ing the Oath of Abjuration, and repeating and signing the Test. The Gentleman takes his Seat in the House. Mr Speaker communicates to the House, the following Message from his Excellency the Governor. Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly. You have now sat above a week, and no Bill has yet been offered to me, or by what I can find, sent to the Upper House for the Pur pose I so earnestly recommended at our first meeting, and which brought us together at this Season of the year: This Delay is the ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. L. H. J Post Meridiem Liber No. 46, Volume 44, p. 80 ... The House met according to Adjournment. Capt. Addison appears in the House. The following Report, from the Committee appointed to find out Ways and Means for raising the Sum of two Thousand Pounds Current money of Maryland, and applying the same to his Majesty's Service for Support of the Garrison of Louisburg at Cape Breton, being read, the House concurs therewith. By the Committee appointed to find out Ways and Means for raising the Sum of two Thousand Pounds Current Money of Mary land, and applying the same to his Majesty's Service, for Support of the Garrison of Louisburg at Cape Breton. [p. 456] Your Committee conceive, that the most expeditious method for raising the said Sum, to render the same of Immediate use for the Purpose intended, is, that the Sum of two Thousand Pounds Cur rent Money of this Province, be borrowed or taken out of the Office for emitting Bills of Credit, and that the said Sum be repaid into the said Office by the Ways herein after mentioned, viz, by reenacting such Part of the Act entituled, An Act for the raising and issuing money for maintaining his Majesty's Forces to be raised in this Province, and for transporting them to the Place of Rendezvous in the West Indies, as relates to Ordinary Licenses, and applying the Fines arising on them, to the Repayment of the said Sum, after having discharged the Sum by the said Act required: As also by a Duty of forty shillings on all Horses, imported by Land or Water into this Province, for Sale. All which your Committee humbly submit to the Consideration of your Honourable House. Signed per Order E. Dorsey Cl. Com. Ordered, That half a Ton of Gun Powder, and two and a half Ton of Lead, and leaden Bullets for the use of the Garrison of Louisburg, and to be taken out of the publick Magazine, be inserted in the Bill for raising the Sum of two Thousand Pounds Current Money, for his Majestys Service, for Supporting the Garrison of Louisburg at Cape Breton, over and above the said two Thousand Pounds. And Ordered, That the Committee of Laws prepare and bring in a Bill accordingly. Ordered, That Mr Philip Hammond, Dr Carroll, Mr Bordley, and Mr Harris, prepare an Address to his Excellency, on his Message of this Day. Mr Stoughton, from the Committee of Laws, brings in a Bill entituled, An Act for Limitation of Officers Fees; which was read the first Time, and ordered to lie on the Table. The House adjourns ‘til To-Morrow Morning 9 of the Clock ...
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• The Lower House. 81 Wednesday Morning, August 14. 1745 ... L.H.J. Liber No. 46 J. No. 46 46 Volume 44, p. 81 ... The House met according to Adjournment. All Members present as Yesterday. The Proceedings of yesterday were read. A Question being put, Whether it shall be in a Clause in the Bill to be brought in for raising the Sum of two Thousand Pounds Cur rent Money for his Majesty's Service; for supporting the Garrison of Louisburg at Cape Breton, that the sum of Sterling, be paid for every Hogshead of Tobacco to be exported out of this Province, for the Payment of an Agent in Great Britain, for the Service of the said Province, subject to the Appointment and Disposal of the House of Delegates of the said Province, or not? It was resolved in the Affirmative. For the Affirmative Mr Abell Mr Mackall Mr Pearce Jno Gresham Courts Hyland Richd Gresham Smaliwood Paca Harris Harrison Buchanan Carrol Wm Wilkinson Wootton Phil. Hammond Stoughton Sprigg Worthington N. Goldsborough Addison Hen. Hall Thomas T. Wilkinson Jos. Hall J. Goldsborough T. Hammond Brome Hooper Hopper For the Negative Mr Bond Mr Ennalls Mr Gordon Barnes Lecompte Bordley Mills Sullivane Pemberton King George Purnell Dennis Colvil Selby Lloyd John Hall Outten The House adjourns to 2 of the Clock Post Meridiem The House met according to Adjournment. A Petition of Charles Carroll, praying Leave to bring in a Bill, to remedy some Defects in an Indenture of Bargain and Sale, made and executed by Michael Curtis and Sarah his wife, late of St. Mary's County deceased, and Charles Carroll Esqre of the City of Annapolis, deceased; Read and granted.— Mr Smith, a returned member for Calvert County, appears in the [p. 457] House. Mr Joseph Hall, and Mr Mackall, are sent to the Upper House to see him qualified: They return, and acquaint Mr Speaker they ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. L. H. J. Volume 44, p. 84 ... sions you make of Duty to his Majesty, and Affection for his Service: Liber No. 46 This is the great Point you are met upon, and I must say, you have already let so much Time go by, that you have no more to lose, if you really mean to act like good Subjects, and avoid an odious Dis- tinction that must inevitably be made between the Behaviour of a Maryland Lower House of Assembly, and that of all the other Colonies, who have been applied to in this important Business. As for not giving you an Answer to your Address in Relation to the Levy of one Pound of Tobacco per Poll, I have deferred purely in respect to his Majesty's Service, which ought to have engrossed our whole Attention, and which if it had, would have saved me the Pain of answering an Address of so strange a nature as what you have sent me this Day, which as I know to be the Production of a few, so to a few, very few do I impute it. T. Bladen 15th Aug. 1745 The House adjourns to 2 of the Clock Post Meridiem The House met according to Adjournment. Col. Colvil, from the Committee appointed to inspect the Office and Proceedings of the Commissioners for emitting Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly, delivers Mr Speaker the following [p. 460] Report, viz. (See page 7) Which being read, the House concurs therewith. The House adjourns ‘til To-morrow Morning, 9 of the Clock. August 17 Saturday Morning Aug. 1745. The House met according to Adjournment. The Proceedings of Yesterday were read. A Petition of John Hussey, of Prince George's County, praying Leave to bring in a Bill for recording a Deed of Bargain and Sale, between the said John Hussey and a certain John Aubrey of Prince William County in Virginia, for a Tract of Land called Yate's Addi tion, being read, The House appoints Mr Smith, Mr Sprigg, and Mr Courts, a Committee to inquire into the Allegations contained in the said Petition. William Stoughton Esqre from the Committee of Laws, brings in a Bill, entituled An Act for raising the Sum of Pounds, Cur rent Money, and Sterling per Hogshead, for his Majesty's Service towards supporting the Garrison of Louisburg on Cape Breton, and for other Purposes therein mentioned: Which was read the first Time, and ordered to lie on the Table. The House adjourns ‘til Monday Morning 9 of the Clock ...
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• The Lower House. Post Meridiem L. H. J. Liber No. 46 Volume 44, p. 87 ... The House met according to Adjournment Resolved, That a further Sum of one Thousand Pounds Current Money, be added to the former Sum of two Thousand Pounds, Voted for his Majesty's Service towards supporting the Garrison of Louisburg at Cape Breton. The Bill entituled, An Act for raising the Sum of three Thousand Pounds Current money, and two Pence Sterling per Hogshead for his Majesty's Service &ca was read the second Time, and will pass. The House adjourns ‘til To-Morrow Morning 9 of the Clock. Tuesday morning, August 20. 1745 August 20 The House met according to Adjournment, The Proceedings of Yesterday were read. The Bill entituled, An Act for raising the Sum of three Thousand Pounds Current Money, and two Pence Sterling per Hogshead for his Majesty's Service, towards supporting the Garrison of Louis- burg &a. was sent to the Upper House by W Philip Hammond, and thirteen others. On Motion of a Member, that an Address to the Governour be prepared, praying him that he will order an Account of all Fines, Forfeitures, and Provincial Amerciaments, arising within this Prov ince, to be laid before this House. Ordered, that the Committee of Laws prepare, and bring in the same. The House adjourns to 2 of the Clock. Post Meridiem The House met according to Adjournment Mr John Goldsborough hath Leave of the House to go Home On Motion of a Member, that a congratulatory Address to his sacred Majesty, be prepared: Ordered, that the Committee of Laws prepare, and bring in the same. Mr Goldsborough, from the Committee of Aggrievances, and Courts of Justice, delivers Mr Speaker the following Report, viz. By the Committee of Aggrievances, and Courts of Justice, August 20. 1745. Whereas Mr Philemon Lecompte, a Member of your House hath made a Complaint to your Committee, that he being indebted to a certain John Gale in the Quantity of 571 Pounds of Tobacco, of which he made a Tender according to the Directions of an Act of Assembly entituled, An Act for Relief of Debtors, and ascertaining ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. L. H. J. Volume 44, p. 90 ... The Bill entituled, A supplementary Act to the Act entituled [An Liber No. 46] Act appointing Commissioners for dividing St. Mary's County into four Parishes &ca was read the second Time, passed, and sent to the Upper House by Mr Barnes, and Mr Mills. The Bill, entituled An additional Supplementary Act to the Act, entituled An Act for laying out and erecting a Town at a Place called Long Point, on the West side of North East River in Cecil County; was read the second Time, passed, and sent to the Upper House by Col. Colvil, and Mr Hyland. The House adjourns ‘til To Morrow Morning, 9 of the Clock. August 22 Thursday Morning August 22. 1745 The House met according to Adjournment, The Proceedings of Yesterday were read. The House adjourns to 2 of the Clock. Post Meridiem The House met according to Adjournment. The Bill entituled, An Act for raising the sum of three Thousand Pounds Current Money, and two pence Sterling per Hogshead, for his Majesty's Service towards supporting the Garrison of Louisburg on Cape Breton, and for other Purposes therein mentioned, was sent to the Upper House by Mr Philip Hammond, and thirteen others, with the following Message, (See page 15) p. On Motion of a Member, that a further Address be prepared to his Excellency, praying him that he will order to be laid before this House, by what Authority a Pound of Tobacco hath been levied upon each Taxable Person of this Province, Ordered, That the Com mittee of Laws prepare and bring in the same. Mr Harris brings in the Address to his Excellency, which was read, approved of, and ordered to be ingrossed. [p. 467] The Bill entituled, a supplementary Act to the Act entituled, An Act to enable Commissioners therein named to lay out forty Acres of Land into eighty Lots for a Town on Indian River in Worcester County, as also forty Acres of Land into eighty Lots at the Head of Asseteague Creek at a place commonly called the Trapp for a Town, was read the second Time, and will pass. The Hotise adjourns ‘til To-Morrow Morning 9 of the Clock. August 23 Friday Morning, August 23. 1745. The House met according to Adjournment, The Proceedings of yesterday were read ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. L. H. J. Post Meridiem Liber No. 46 Volume 44, p. 92 ... The House met according to Adjournment The Bill entituled, An Act for enlarging the Jurisdiction of the County Courts, being read the second Time, the Question was put, Whether the said Bill shall pass, or not? Resolved in the Negative. For the Negative Mr Bond Mr Mackall Mr Sherredine Abell Courts Paca Barnes Harrison Jno Hall Mills W. Wilkinson Buchanan G. Willson King Addison J. Gresham D. Wilison Gordon R. Gresham Dennis Bordley Harris Lecompte T. Wilkinson Carroll Su!ivane T. Hammond Smith Colvil Hopper Jos. Hall Pearce Purnell Brome Hyland For the Affirmative Mr P. Hammond Mr Lloyd Mr Sprigg Worthington Thomas Pemberton Hen. Hall Hooper Selby Smaliwood Ennalls Outten Stoughton George N. Goldsborough Wootton [p. 468] Daniel Dulany Esqre and Col. Tasker from the Upper House de livers Mr Speaker the Bill entituled An Act for raising the Sum of three Thousand Pounds Current money and two pence Sterling per Hogshead foc his Majesty's Service &ca Indorsed, (See page 17) And the following Message, (See page 17) [p. 470] An ingrossed Address to the King's most Excellent Majesty was read, approved of, and ordered, on behalf of the House, to be signed by the Honourable Speaker; and is as follows, viz. To the Kings most excellent Majesty. The humble Address of the House of Delegates of the Province of Maryland Most Gracious Sovereign, We, your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful Liege Subjects, the Representatives of the Free men of the said Province, beg Leave to approach your sacred Person with our hearty Congratulations on the Success of your Arms, in the Reduction of the City of Louisburg at Cape Breton in North America, with it's Dependencies, to ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745, Volume 44, pp. 95 The Lower House. 95 For the Negative L. H. J. Liber No. 46 ... Mr Barns Mr George Mr Gordon King Colvil Dennis Buchanan. Ordered, That the Bill entituled, An Act for raising the Sum of three Thousand Pounds, Current Money, and two Pence Sterling per Hogshead, for his Majesty's Service, towards supporting the Garrison of Louisburg on Cape Breton, and for other Purposes therein mentioned, with the Indorsements thereon, be printed, and made a Part of the Journal of this House. Which is as follows, viz. An Act for raising the sum of three Thousand Pounds Current Money, and two Pence Sterling per Hogshead, for his Majesty's Service, towards supporting the Garrison of Louisburg on Cape Breton, and for other Purposes therein mentioned, Whereas, we have certain Advice that the Town of Louisburg on Cape Breton is, with it's Dependencies, by his Majesty's Subjects of New England, with the Assistance of Fart of the British Fleet, reduced to his Majesty's Obedience; and that for the Preservation thereof, an immediate Supply of Provision, and other Necessaries are wanting: We therefore his Majesty's faithful and loyal Subjects, the Delegates of the Free men of Maryland, in General Assembly convened, freely, willingly, and chearfully to promote his Majesty's Service, by contributing towards the Preservation of the said Con quest against the common Enemy, so far as the Circumstances and Ability of the People of this Province will admit, humbly pray that it may be enacted. And be it enacted by the right honourable the Lord Proprietor, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governour, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, that the Sum of Three Thousand Pounds in Bills of Credit of this Province, Part of the publick Money in the hands and [p. 472] Custody of the Commissioners or Trustees for emitting Bills of Credit, established by Act of Assembly, be and is hereby enacted, appointed declared, and appropriated, to be taken up, paid and applied by the Persons and in manner hereafter mentioned, in the buying fit and necessary Provisions for his Majesty's Service, towards sup porting and maintaining the Garrison of Louisburg on Cape Breton And be it further enacted by the Authority, Advice, and Consent aforesaid, that Col. Thomas Colvil, Mr Richard Gresham, Capt. Bartholomew Ennalls Capt. David Willson, and Capt. William Hopper, be and are hereby constituted and appointed Agents for this Province, to execute and perform the several and respective Matters and Things contained and mentioned in this Act, accord ing to the Tenor thereof, in manner hereafter expressed. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that the said Col. Thomas Colvil Mr Richard Gresham, Capt Bartholomew Ennalls ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745, Volume 44, pp. 96 L. H. J. ... Capt. David Wilison, and Capt. William Hopper, or any three of [Liber No. 46] them, be and hereby impowered and authorized to take and receive of and from the said Commissioners, or Trustees, for emitting Bills of Credit, established by Act of Assembly, the Sum of three Thou sand Pounds Current money, in the said Bills of Credit, to be ap plied and laid out within this Province by them the said Col. Thomas Colvil, Mr Richard Gresham, Capt. Bartholomew Ennalls, Capt. David Willson, and Capt. William Hopper, or any three of them, in such Provisions as may be most suitable and convenient for sup port of his Majesty's Garrison of Louisburg on Cape Breton, afore said, and at the cheapest Rates that the markets will admit of. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners or Trustees for emitting Bills of Credit, established by Act of Assembly, be and they are hereby impowered and directed to pay unto them the said Col. Thomas Colvil, Mr Richard Gresham, Capt. Bartholomew Ennalls, Capt. David Willson, and Capt. William Hopper, Agents as aforesaid, or any three of them, the said Sum of three thousand Pounds; and to take the Receipt or Order of them the said Agents, or any three of them, for their lustification. And that the said Commissioners or Trustees shall, and they are hereby directed to state an Account in the Books of the Office of the said Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid, by charging the Province of Maryland Debtor for the use of this Act, with the several Payments by them to be made to the Agents aforesaid, by virtue, and in Pur suance of this Act. And be it further Enacted, that his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esqre do, by virtue of this Act, immediately upon the passing and perfecting the same, write to his Excellency William Shirley Esqre Governour of the Massachusets Bay, at Boston, acquainting him that the Sum of three Thousand Pounds has been by the General Assem bly of this Province provided and appropriated to his Majesty's Service, for Purchase of suitable Provisions towards supporting the Garrison of Louisburg at Cape Breton; as also half a Ton of Gun Powder, and two Ton and an half of Lead and Leaden Ball: And that this Province not being supplied with suitable Vessels for the safe freighting the said Provision and Ammunition, request he will order proper Vessels to be sent from Boston for the same; and like wise to know at what Time such Vessel or Vessels may be expected. And that such Vessels may be adequate to the Tonnage, Quantity of such Provision, Be it further Enacted, that the said Agents, or any three of them, do and shall, and they are hereby directed, to give to his said Excellency Thomas Bladen Esqre three Lists or Schedules of such Provision, and the Quantities and Qualities as they think may be the readiest had within this Province, to the Amount of the said Sum of three Thousand pounds, for the Service aforesaid; in eluding in the said Schedules the said Powder and Lead for the Purpose aforesaid ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745. L. H. J. Volume 44, p. 118 ... this House, on the Affair of Louisburg, applies for Men, Provision, [Liber No. 46] Arms and Ammunition only, and recommends that an Embargo be laid on all Provisions 'til that want be supplied; and as there is not in that Letter any Request of Assistance by money, or other than the before mentioned means. Resolved, That by the Bill passed in this House, entituled, An Act for raising the sum of three Thousand Pounds Current money, and two pence sterling per Hogshead, for his Majesty's Service towards p. supporting the Garrison of Louisburg on Cape Breton, and for other Purposes therein mentioned, this House had complied with the several Parts of that Letter, in the several Particulars therein men tioned, so far as the Circumstances of this Province will admit. Resolved, That the above mentioned Order of Council was served on the Printer on Fryday Evening last, not only after the making and Entry of an Order of this House for the printing of that Letter, but also after this House had that Afternoon adjourned. Resolved, That the making, issuing, and serving the aforemen tioned Order of the Governour and Council in the aforesaid manner, in Contradiction and Opposition to an Order of this House before then entered into, is an high Violation, and tends to subvert the fun damental Rights, Privileges, and Authority of this House. And that any Order or Resolve of this House, relating to their Proceedings, is not, nor ought to be, suspended or controuled by any Order of the Governour and Council. Resolved, That this House, out of Compassion to the Circum stances of the Printer, and from no other motive whatever, do wave his printing that Letter as ordered by this House on Friday last. The Consideration of the Governour's Message, in Answer to an Address of this House concerning Fines, Forfeitures, and Provincial Amerciaments, referred ‘til To Morrow Morning. The House adjourns ‘til To-Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock. August 27 Tuesday Morning August 27. 1745. The House met according to Adjournment. The Proceedings of yesterday were read. On Consideration of the Governor's Message in Answer to an Address of this House concerning Fines, Forfeitures &ca Resolved, That an Address to his Excellency, on the Subject matter of that message, be prepared; and Ordered, That the Committee of Laws prepare and bring in the same. The House adjourns ‘til 2 of the Clock. Post Meridiem The House met according to Adjournment The House taking into Consideration the Governor's Message, in Answer to their Address concerning the One Pound of Tobacco ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, June 17—July 8, 1746. L. H. J. Volume 44, p. 322 ... Commisrs from this Government, and such others uppon the Conti Liber No. 46 nent, as are willing to engage therein for the mutual Security and Defence of the whole. There are now four Governments, with this to the Eastward, that have appointed Commisrs for this End; and I cannot help repeating my Sollicitations to your Governments to accede to the like Measures, which consequently must Promote His Majestie's Service by being able to collect a strength sufficient to Annoy and defeat the Attempts of the Enemy who have fallen uppon this and Boston Government in a very enterprizing manner, and have Committed many Cruel and inhuman Murders uppon his Majesty's Subjects, should the City of Albany fall into their hands, it is thought the Governments to the westward cannot of themselves, sustain the Ravages of the Enemy, therefore must be exposed to the greater sufferings; which I conceive ought to be an Inducement for their joining more chearfully with this and the other Governments for the Good of the Common Cause. I am very much Sr Yr humble Servant G. Clinton Sr Boston the 2d of June 1746 Therewith inclose a Proclamation which I have issued for raising Voluntiers for the intended Expedition, by which your Honour will perceive the Spirit of our General Assembly, and the Disposition which they have shewn to give the utmost Encouragement for pro moting the undertaking, which considering what we have done and suffered in the late Expidition to Cape Breton is beyond what I could have Expected from them I hope your Assembly (who have done so little in the last Expedition) will not fall below us in this I cannot but think it will be of service for all the Governments to enlist as niany of their neighbouring Indians as they can provided they are of a warlike Disposition and Friends to the English Interest. I am with great Regard Sr Your Honours most obedient humble Servt W. Shirley June 8th 1746. Since the writing of this by the Secretary which should have been sent by the last Post, I hear that the Government of New Hampshire has given Encouragement for raising 1000 men there and that of Connecticut for raising 600 men, and as many more as will Voluntarily enlist in that Colony, what Rhode Island has done I don't hear with Certainty, but they talk of 500 men to be raised W. S. Sr New York 16th June 1746 Pursuant to his Majesty's orders to me Signified by his Grace of Newcastle, I intend to be at Albany the 20th of next month, in order to make use of Proper measures to engage the six Nations of In dians to take part in the present Expidition against Canada; and I ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, June 17—July 8, 1746. L H. J. Volume 44, p 324 ... must observe that W Shirley is not well advised of what this House [Liber No. 46] had done in favour of the Expedition to Cape Breton, since it was well known, that a Bill passed this Branch of the Legislature, mak ing a generous and suitable Provision for the security and support of that Acquisition. The Expedition against Canada will we hope be Attendd with success, and therefore remove the Evil complained of by these Gentle men, and in Particular as to Albany, that being the Place of Ren dezvous for such a part of his Majesty's Forces who we hope will not only be able to Defend that and the adjacent Territories, but also annoy the Common Enemy. The Sum already given for the support of this Expedition is to the full of what the People of Maryland can bear, for which and the former Reasons we doubt not but we shall stand excused if we bring no further Charge upon the Province in Consequence of those Letters. The Bill entituled, an Act for the Tryal of all matters of Fact in the several Counties where they have Arisen or shall Arise, was read the second Time, passed, and sent to the upper House by Mr George and five others Mr Lloyd and W Bond ordered to Acquaint his Excellency that this House hath prepared an address to him and desires to know when and where he will be pleased to receive it. They return and Acquaint Mr. Speaker his Excellency will be ready immediately to receive it in the Conference Chamber The same Gentlemen sent to present the address They return and Acquaint Mr Speaker they have presented it The House adjourns ‘til To-morrow Morning 9 of the Clock. June 25 Wednesday Morning June 25. 1746 The House met according to Adjournment, and the Proceedings of Yesterday were read. Mr Addison and Mr Dulany appear in the House Colo Lloyd from the Upper House delivers Mr. Speaker the Bill entituled, An Act continuing An Act entituled An Act for relieving the Inhabitants of this Province from some Aggrievances in the Prosecution of Suits at Law, and for continuing the Supplementary Act thereto: And the Bill entituled An Act continuing an Act enti tuled, an Act for the advancement of Justice Indorsed Which Bills were here read, and Passed for Ingrossing The House adjourns ‘til 2 of the Clock ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, June 17—July 8, 1746. Liber L H. J. Volume 44, p 326 ... words was accompanied with scornful and insulting Looks and Ac i No. tions, not easily to be expressed, tho' firmly imprinted on his Memory All which this House conceive was said and Acted to intimidate him the said Smith, and others whom it might influence or deter, from doing their Duty, or Acting with Freedom in any future Debate Upon fully and most maturely considering of which, it is unani mously resolved by this House, That the Liberty of Speech on every Debate and Matter in Assembly is and ought to be free, and that no member ought to be questioned or impeached for any thing said or done in discharge of his Duty in the House of Delegates, by Any Person whatever, or in any manner whatever, other than by the House it self. Resolved, That His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq, by evilly treating Mr Walter Smith in manner aforesaid, hath highly violated the fundamental Rights and Privileges of the House of Delegates Resolved, That this House doth Appoint the Committee of Laws to draw up a proper Remonstrance to be Presented to His Excellency on the Subject matter aforesaid; and ordered, that they bring in the same To morrow morning. Maj. Hall from the Committee of Laws delivers Mr Speaker A Bill entituled, An Act continuing an Act enti [p. 591] tuled, An Act for the speedy Recovery of small debts out of Court before a single Justice of the Peace; which was read the first Time, and ordered to lie on the Table. The Letter from his Grace the Duke of Newcastle mentioned in the Governor's Speech at the opening of this Session was ordered to be entered on the Journal; and it is as follows Sr White Hall April 9th 1746 I am commanded to acquaint you, that His Majesty has been pleased to order five Battalions of his Troops under the Command of Lieut General St Clair, to go from hence, as soon as possible, with A Sufficient Convoy of Men of War, to Louisburg, in order to be employed together with the Regiment of Major Genl Frampton, which has been some Time ordered to embark for Louisburg, and with the two Regiments sent thither from Gibraltar, and also with such Troops as shall be Levied for that Purpose in North America for the immediate Reduction of Canada: And I am commanded by his Majesty to signify his Pleasure to you (as I do to the other Gov ernors of the said Colonies) that you should forthwith make the necessary Dispositions for raising as many Men, as the Shortness of the Time will permit, within your Government, to be employed, in Concert with his Najesties Regular Forces, on this important Service. It is hoped, that Lieut General St. Clair will be able to sail from hence, with the Troops under his Command, the latter End of April, or the Beginning of May ...
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• The Lower House. Volume 44, p 327 ... It is the King's Intention, that the Troops to be raised, should L. H. J. consist of Companies of one Hundred men each; and that those, that [Liber No. 46] shall be raised in the several Provinces of New York, new Iersies, Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia (be formed into one Corps, to be commanded by Mr Gooch Lieut Governor of Virginia) whom the King has been Pleased, on this occasion, to promote to the Rank of a Brigadier General; and that they should rendezvous at Albany within the Province of New York; or at such other Place, as Gooch shall think Proper to Appoint, in order to proceed from thence, by Land into the Southern Parts of Canada The Troops to be raised in the Province of Massachusets Bay New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, are to rendezvous at Louisburg, and to proceed with the Forces sent from hence, under Convoy of his Majesty's Fleet up the River of St. Lawrence to Quebec. In Consequence of these Dispositions, His Majesty has ordered me to recommend it to you, in the strongest manner, to proceed im mediately to raise as large a Body of men, as the Shortness of the time will permit, within your Government and you will Appoint such officers, as you shall think proper, to command them; For which purpose, a number of Blank Commissions will be sent you, by the next Conveyance: And you will transmit to Mr Gooch a particular Accomt of what you shall be able to do herein; And you will follow such Directions, as you shall receive from Mr Gooch, with regard to the place of Rendezvous and everything relating to the Proceed ings of the said Troops You will assure all those, that shall engage in this Service as well officers as soldiers, that they will immediately enter into his Majesty's Pay; The officers, from The time they shall engage in his Majesty's Service; and the Soldiers, from the respective Days on which they shall enlist; and that they shall come in for a share of any booty, to be taken from the Enemy: And be sent back to their respective Habi tations, when this service shall be over, unless any of them shall [p. 592] desire to settle elsewhere. As to the Articles of Arms and Cloathing for the men to be raised, His Majesty has commanded me to recom mend it to you, and the other Governors, to take care, that the Sol diers may be Provided with them: and His Majesty has authorized, and empowered Lieut General St. Clair to make a reasonable Allow ance for defraying that Expence You will recommend it to the Council, and Assembly of Mary land, to provide a sufficient Quantity of Provisions for the subsis tance of the Troops I am ordered by His Majesty to recommend it to you, to make the strictest Enquiry for Any Persons, that may be Acquainted with the Navigation of the River of St Lawrence and if you can find any ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, June 17—July 8, 1746. L. H. J. Volume 44, p 328 ... such, you will engage them, at any Rate, to serve as Pilots on board [Liber No. 46] His Majesty's Fleet, and you will send them, as soon as Possible, to Louisburg for that Purpose I am Sr Your most obedient humble Servant Holles Newcastle The House adjourns ‘til To-morrow Morning 9 of the Clock June26 Thursday Morning June 26, 1746 The House met according to Adjournment, and the Proceedings of Yesterday were read Mr Green Printer, agrees with the House to print the Votes and Proceedings of the present session, at the usual Allowance of twelve Shillings per Day Mr Philip Hammond delivers Mr Speaker a Remonstrance to his Excellency, which was, approved of, and ordered to be engrossed Daniel Dulany Esqr from the Upper House delivers Mr Speaker the Bill entituled, An Act continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province entituled, An Act for the better Relief of Poor Debtors: and the Bill entituled, An Act continuing An Act of Assembly of this Province entituled An Act to prevent the ill Practices of Sheriffs in the Collecting and payment of the Public and County Levies; Indorsed (See page 291.) Which Bills were read and passed for Ingrossing The Bill entituled, An Act continuing An Act entituled An Act for the speedy Recovery of small debts out of Court before a single Justice of the Peace, was read the second Time by an especial order, passed, and sent to the Upper House by Mr Stoughton and W Bond Mr Lloyd delivers Mr Speaker a Bill entituled An Act for erecting a County School in Worcester County and appointing Visitors for the same; which was read the first Time and ordered to lie on the Table The House adjourns ‘til 2 of the Clock Post Meridiem The House met according to Adjournment The following Ingrossed Remonstrance being read and assented to, was ordered on behalf of the House, to be signed by Your Hon ourable Speaker viz. [p. 593] To His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esqr Governor of Maryland The Remonstrance of the House of Delegates It is with the greatest Concern we find ourselves under an indis pensible necessity to take notice of the Treatment which Mr Walter Smith, a Gentleman of Calvert County, and a Representative in ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, June 17—July 8, 1746. L. H. J. Post Meridiem Liber No. 46, Volume 44, p. 358 ... The House met according to Adjournment ... In Answer to your Address of the 24th of June, I agree with you that the Letters wrote by the Governors Shiny and Clinton relating to the Indians shew those " Gentlemen's ability, and Care for their Governments," and I sincerely wish that all his Majesty's Subjects were equally Sollicitous for their own Defence and Safety, as you allow those Gentlemen to be, as to your observation that Mr Shirley was not well advised of what the Lower House of Assembly had done in favour of the Expedition to Cape Breton if you mean what was done in relation to a supply for the Defence of the Garrison of Lewisburg after it was redticed to his Majesty's obedience, I assure you, you are mistaken, and that instead of his not being well advised, he was fully acquainted with the Endeavours which were used on my Part with a late memorable Lower House of Assembly now no more to obtain a Supply for the Defence of that important Acquisition as well as the Measures that were taken by that House who, under the strongest Professions of Duty Loyalty and Affection to Our most Gracious Sovereign made use of every barefaced and dilatory Expedient to prevent any Supply from being given especially by takeing to that Bill a Provision for raising a Sum of Money for Purposes quite foreign to that Service and which they well knew had been frequently before disagreed to by the Upper House and would not be passed by them ...
• Assembly Proceedings, December 22, 23, 1747. U.H.J. Liber No. 34 pp. 212-213, Volume 44, pp. 676-677 ... Extract of a Letter from his Grace the Duke of Newcastle to Gover- nor Shirley Dated Whitehall 30 May 1747 His Majesty has been pleased to direct me to Signify to you his Pleasure that you should immediately appoint a meeting with Com- modore Knowles at such Place as shall be agreed upon and Consider with him the Present State of Nova Scotia & Louis Bourg and take the Proper Measures for the Defence of those Places 
  It is his Majestys Pleasure that you should Endeavour to Com- pleat from Out of the Americans which are now Raised for his Majestys Service Sir William Pepperrells Regiment and Your Own Lieutenant General Phillips Regiament, is, I am afraid very weak I will however send him his Majestys Orders to send what Recruits can be got from hence; And you will also endeavour to have his Regiment Compleated out of the Americans. 
  As it is his Majestys Intention that the Americans should be im- mediately Discharged Except only such few as are mentioned above the Manner of Discharging them, the Satisfaction for their Time &c must be left to Commodore Knowles and Yourself; the King however is perswaded you will do it as Cheap as Possible And as these American Troops have done Little or no Service hitherto it is hoped they will not Expect to be Paid in the Manner they would have been, had they Actually been employed on Service but it seems highly Reasonable that such of the Troops as have Remained in the Provinces where they were Inlisted should be Con- tented with less pay than such of them as may have Marched into other Provinces. 
  When You and Mr Knowles shall have met and fully Considered the Service to be undertaken in the manner above Directed and shall have agreed what number of Americans it will be necessary to keep in Pay for the Purpose It is his Majestys Pleasure that you should Procure an Account of the whole Expence incurred on Ac- count of the American Troops, from the Time of their being Levied, to the Time of their Discharge and when the same shall be fully Adjusted and Liquidated, you will Transmitt to me with the Proper Vouchers, from the Several Governors, that it may be Laid before Parliament to the End that Provision may be made for the Payment ; and in the mean time, in order to prevent any Complaint among the men that have been Misted (as well those that shall be Discharged, as those that shall Continue in Service) for want of immediate Pay you will Recomend it to the Governors of the Provinces where these Levies have been made, to Procure Credit from their Respective Assemblies for that Purpose, which his Majesty hopes may be done without any Difficulty 
  It is also his Majestys Pleasure that Mr Knowles and You should Consider what number of Americans will be realy wanted for the Service above mentioned; and the King would have you Retain as many as may be absolutely necessary for that Service and no more, and the King hopes that a small number of Americans with his Majestys forces which you have, may be sufficient for the purpose ; as the Expence of the Americans is very Great, and as [to] the Ameri- cans in General, except only such as may be wanted for the Service above mentioned It is his Majestys Pleasure that you in Conjunction with Commodore Knowles should thank them in such manner as you think Proper and immediately Discharge them upon the best and Cheapest foot you can; in order thereto you will Consult with the Respective Governors upon the manner of doing it: And you will Transmit to his Majesty, an immediate Account what You shall do therein. N. B. This Paragraph should have been inserted between the fourth and fifth Paragraphs Cha: Knowles W. Shirley 
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• ACTS Volume 44, p. 399 ... An Act for issuing and taking out of the Office of the Commission- Session Laws p. 3 ers or Trustees appointed for emitting Bills of Credit, established Chapter 1 by Act of Assembly, the Sum of Four Thousand Five Hundred Expired 26th Pounds, Current Money, for Encouragement of such able-bodied November 1763 Freemen as shall voluntarily enlist themselves into his Majesty's Service, for the intended Expedition against Canada; and for maintaining and conveying them to the Place of Rendezvous: As also for replacing of the said Sum, and for the better regulat ing Ordinaries and Ordinary-Keepers, and for other Purposes therein mentioned. Whereas his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, by his Letter, dated, Preamble Whitehall, April 9, 1746, to his Excellency Thomas Bladen, Esq; Governor of Maryland, has signified to him, that his Majesty has been pleased to order some Troops under Lieutenant-General St. Clair, from Great-Britain, and two Regiments at Louisburg, in Con junction with such Troops as should be levied in North-America, for the immediate Reduction of Canada; and therein signified the Royal Pleasure, that his said Excellency should forthwith make the neces sary Dispositions for raising as many Men within this Province as the Shortness of the Time would admit; which Men, so raised, to be formed into Companies of one hundred each, and offIcer'd by Per sons nominated by him the said Thomas Bladen, Esq; and with those to be raised in the Provinces of New-York, New-Jerseys, Pennsyl vania, and Virginia, to be formed into Corps, to be commanded by Mr. Gooch, Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia, whom his Majesty had been pleased on that Occasion to promote to the Rank of Brigadier-General; and that they the said Forces should rendezvous at Albany within the Province of New-York, or at such other Place as the said Mr. Gooch should think proper: And therein likewise recommended, that Arms should be provided for the said Men so to be raised within this Province, and for which Arms the said Lieu tenant-General St. Clair was authorized and empowered by his Majesty to pay. And whereas, by the said Letter, it is expected that the said Thomas Bladen, Esq; would recommend it to the Council and Assembly of Maryland, to provide a sufficient Quantity of Pro visions for the Subsistence of the Troops. And for that it is imprac ticable for his Excellency the Governor to purchase a suitable Quantity of Arms within this Province, or in the neighbouring Gov ernments, to arm compleatly the Number of Men which it is hoped and expected may be raised within this Province, whereby his Majes ty's Service in that Particular might be retarded, unless the same ...

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