Finding Aids and Inventories Not Available 
at the Fortress of Louisbourg

Taken from : FINDING AID FOR LOUISBOURG MATERIALS IN THE MARYLAND STATE ARCHIVES
Extracted by Eric Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions, February 6, 2002 Louisbourg Library Report 2002-09

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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly,
February 22, 1755 - October 9, 1756,
Volume 52

The fifty-second volume of the Archives of Maryland series was published in 1935, with J. Hall Pleasants as the editor, under the direction of the Maryland Historical Society. This volume covers the Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly February 22, 1755 to October 9, 1756.
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• Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 22 Mar. 26, 755. L. H. J. Volume 52, p. 68 ... me to solicit the Governrs of the Rest of His Majesties Colonies to [Liber No. 48] March 10 Join with us in this Necessary Expedient for our Common Safety. Your Honour will observe that the Time for the Continuance of this Prohibition is Restrained to three Months, but if the other Governments should Join with us, I make no Doubt of bringing my Assembly to Extend it further. It would give me great pleasure to have Your Honours Concur rence with me in sentiments Concerning what appears to me so Salu tory a Measure at this Conjuncture for the General Good of all his Majesty's Colonies in North America. I have the Honour to be with the Greatest Respect Sir Your most Obedient Humble Servant W Shirley. New York 24th February 1755. Sir On Wednesday last the Assembly of this Province was adjourned to the 2d Tuesday in March, after I had given my Assent to three Bills One to regulate the Militia, another for Emitting Bills to the sum of £45000. £3000. of which for Fortifications in this City and on the Northern Frontier the Third is the Act Herewith Inclosed, by which you will See that the Governor with the Advice of the Council is Empowered to Restrain the sending Provisions to Cape Breton &ca. I hope the other Governments on the Continent will fall into the like Measure, that the Good Intentions of this Law may not be frustrated, for it would be unreasonable and would not answer the purpose that the Trade of One Province should be Restrained, while the others are left at Liberty: I hope you will prevail with your Assembly to fall into a Measure so very proper at this Time and that all the Provinces will Concur, that his Majesty's Subjects may no Longer by Supplying the French with Provisions Enable them to Carry on their pernicious Designs. You will observe that the Act is to Continue for four Months, but I think I may Venture to assure you, that if the other Provinces come into the Like Measure, this Assembly will readily Renew the Act as Long as it can be of any Service. I had the pleasure by Last Saturdays Post to hear from Mr Shirley that in Massachusets Bay they had passed a Law for this purpose. I am £5000 is given for Provisions Sr & other Contingencys in Case hisYour most Obedient, & Majesty's Troops Come into thisMost humble servant Province. James De Lancey On reading and considering his Excellency's Message, and the sev eral Letters and Papers therein referred to: Resolved unanimously ...
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• CHECK The Lower House. Volume 52, p. 69 ... That a Bill be prepared and brought in, To prevent the Exportation [L. H. J]. of Bread, Flour, Victuals, and Warlike Stores to Cape-Breton, or 48 the Islands adjacent thereto, Canada, or any of the French Garrisons, Forts, or Settlements, on the River Ohio: Ordered, That the Commit tee of Laws do prepare and bring in a Bill accordingly. Mr. E. Tilghman, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker an Address to his Excellency; which was read, approved, and ordered to be ingrossed. The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon. Post Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment, &c. Mr. J. Goldsborough, Mr. Reynolds, and Mr. Buchanan, appeared in the House. Mr. Dulany, from the Committee appointed to inspect the Office and Proceedings of the Commissioners, or Trustees, for emitting Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly, brings in, and deliv ers to Mr. Speaker, the following Report, viz.t Maryland, ss. [p.45] At a Committee of both Houses of Assembly, appointed to inspect the Office and Proceedings of the Commissioners for emitting Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly, February 26, 1775. Were Present, The Honourable Col. Richard Lee, of the Upper House; Mr. Walter Dulany, Mr. Michael Earle, Col. John Henry, Mr. James Edge, of the Lower House; Capt. John Handy, Mr. Josiah Bell, And, Mr. John Bracco, Who make Choice of the Honourable Col. Richard Lee, Chairman, and Richard Dorsey their Clerk; and proceed to make the following Report: [This report has been printed in full in the Proceedings of the Upper House on pages 13-27.] Which said Report was Read, and the House concurs therewith. p.52 Richard Lee, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr. Speaker a Bill, entituled, An Act for raising a Supply towards his Majesty's Service, which was thus Indorsed, "By the Upper House of Assem bly, March 3, 1755. Read the first Time, and ordered to lie on th ..
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• The Lower House. Volume 52, p.187 ... Ordered, That M.r Tilghman, and Mr. Benjamin Mackall, do [L:H.J.] acquaint his Excellency, that this House hath prepared an Address Liber No. 48 to be presented to him, and desires to know when, and where, he will please to receive it: They return, and acquaint Mr. Speaker, that the Governor was pleased to signify, he was ready to receive the Address immediately in the Conference Chamber. Ordered, That Doctor Carroll, with five more, do present the Address to his Excellency. His Excellency the Governor's Message, relative to Mr. Rawlins, which was referred last Session, is now referred to the Consideration of next Assembly. The Report relating to the Disposal of the Sum of £6000 which was referred for Consideration this Assembly, is now referred to next Assembly. His Excellency the Governor communicates to Mr. Speaker the [p. 151] following Message, viz. Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly, I have just now received Advice from the Northern Governments, that the French Fleet from Brest, with Four Thousand Land Forces, were arrived in the Harbour of Louisburg, and I am also informed, that no Couriers have arrived at Fort Cumberland, for some Days, from General Braddock, whence there is Reason to apprehend, that the Enemy are between the two Camps, and have cut off the Com- munication. I was unwilling to comply with the Request you just now made to me, before I had communicated to you this Intelligence, and desired you once more, to take the unhappy Condition of your Country, and the back Inhabitants, under your Consideration, and to make some Provision for their Safety and Protection. Hor.o Sharpe. The House adjourns till the Morrow Morning at 7 of the Clock. Tuesday, 8th July, 1755. July 8 The House met according to Adjournment, &c. All appeared as Yesterday, except Mr. Paca, Mr. Tolley, and Capt. Ward. His Excellency the Governor communicates to Mr. Speaker the following Message, viz. Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly, I send you a Letter from Governor Shirley, whereby you will find, we are sollicited to lay an Embargo on all Vessels laden with Pro- visions, for three Months; the several other Northern Governments, have, I am informed, complied with Governor Shirley's Proposal of the same Sort to them, and I doubt not, the Reasons offered in the ...
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• Assembly Proceedings, June 23—July 8, 1755. Liber H. S. Volume 52, p. 204 ... Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro- [Vestry to prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's contract for Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the building a . Church in Authority of the same, That the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary s Dorchester.] White-Chapel in Dorcester County, shall, and they are hereby obliged and required, as soon as conveniently may be, to contract and agree for the Building and compleatly Finishing, a new Church, on or near the Place where the Parish-Church of the said Parish now stands. And be it further Enacted, That the Justices of Dorchester County [Justices to Court, shall, and they are hereby required to, levy on the taxable Levy 350 l. at two Inhabitants of the said Parish, by two even and equal Assessments, Assessments.] in the two next ensuing Years, the aforesaid Sum of Three Hun- dred and Fifty Pounds Current Money, together with a Sallary to the Sheriff of the said County, for collecting the same, of Five per Cent; and the said Sheriff is hereby directed and impowered to col- lect, account for, and pay the same to the said Vestry, in the same Manner as other Money-Levies are collected, accounted for and paid, to be applied, by the said Vestry, to the Building and compleatly Finishing the said new Church, and to no other Purpose whatever. 5th July 1755 On behalf of the Right 5th July 1755 Read and assented to Honourable the Lord Read and assented to by the Lower House of Proprietary of this Prov- by the Upper house of Assemblyince I will this be a Law Assembly Signed p Order Hor.o Sharpe signed p Order M Macnemara Cl lo ho _________ J Ross Cl Up ho the Great Seal No. 9 An Act to prevent the Exportation or carrying out of this Province, Ammunition, Warlike Stores, or Provisions of any Kind, towards [Preamble.] supplying the French, or their Allies. Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly, that divers Persons do supply the French, and their Allies, with Provisions, by Land and Water; and also, that sundry Traders to the Northward, have carried Ammunition, Warlike Stores, and Provisions to Saint Peters, in or near the Island of Newfoundland, from whence the [p. 191] French were supplied with the same, to Louisburg, at Cape-Breton, by which Means they are the better enabled to carry into Execution their unjust Schemes upon his Majesty's Dominions, and against his Subjects on this Part of the Continent: In Order therefore, to prevent as much as in us lies for the Future such Evil, it is prayed that it may be enacted ...

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