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Acceptance the last Sessions And we take Leave to Assure
your Hon^r of our Readiness to Continue the Same Support
as well as that we Resolve to Retain the Strictest Regard to

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your Person; and shall Endeavour to Propogate your Honours
Esteem for us by shewing our selves at all times Very Zealous
in Expressing the great Veneration we have for his Majesty
King George, the Security of the Protestant Religion as well
as the wellfare of Maryland and are very much pleased to
find with what Heartiness and Sincerity your Hon^r is Pleased
to Concurr with us in these our Sentiments. And we are
firmly Perswaded, that his L^ps Arrival here will be attended
with Inexpressible Satisfaction to all his Lordships Tenants
and good People of this Province.
We also Return Our Thanks to your Honour for Com-
municating to us his Lordship's Speech, in whose Desires we
shall most readily Concurr as far forth as upon Due Exam-
inations and Serious Deliberations of the Several Branches
thereof, we shall find them Agreeable to the Interest of his
Government and Wellfair of his Lordships Dutifull Tenants.
The Several Laws recommended to our Care for Revival
shall be duly weighed and Considered and we hope the Result
will be Agreeable to your Hon^r
We shall make a due Inspection into the Sundry Papers
your Hon^r hath or shall be Pleased to Lay before us and
return Our Answers Accordingly.
Your Hon^rs Extensive Zeal and well Wishes for the Good
and Advantage of his L^ps Province is most Conspicuous to all
well wishers thereto by your Recommending in a more Par-
ticular Manner to us the taking into Consideration how to
Relieve ourselves from the most Miserable and Deplorable
State we are reduced to by the sudden Fall of the Staple of our
Country, and by Giveing so great an Example to follow as
that of the Legislature of Great Brittain; whose Measures
in this particular we shall most Strictly follow by Unani-
mously Heartily and Sincerely Setting Our Selves about so
great a Work w^th we most heartily wish may End in the
United Happiness of the Lord Prop^ry and his People.
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Pleasure we Reflect, that the little Heats and Divisions created
thro Misapprehensions Amongst Our Selves are happily ter-
minated; and that it in all Probability very much Con-
tributes to the Inseperable Interest of our Lord Proprietary
and his people. And as by the Marks your Honour hath
already given us we are sufficiently Convinced of your In-
tentions for the Wellfare of this Province so from your
Wisdom Goodness and Justice we are most firmly persuaded
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