| Thomas Hoskins Stone
According to J. Thomas Scharf, "At the opening of Assembly of this year [1796], on the 16th of November, Governor Stone introduced the present custom of sending to the General Assembly a message recommending at the opening of each session, such measures as required their action." (J. Thomas Scharf, History of Maryland from the Earliest Period to the Present Day, Vol. 2 (Hatboro, PA: Tradition Press, 1967), 597.) The Assembly welcomed the messaged and said that "we wish that future governors may follow the laudable example..." (ibid.)
Senate Journal (Nov. 1796 session p. 4/AOMOL vol. 105 p. 4) says:
The president communicates to the senate a letter from his excellency the governor, accompanied with the resignation of the honourable Richard Potts, Esquire, as senator of the United States from the state of Maryland, and also an address from his excellency the governor to both branches of the legislature; which were severally read, referred to the house of delegates, and sent thither by the clerk.
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House Journal (Nov. 1796 session p. 13/AOMOL vol. 105 p. 72) says:
The clerk of the senate delivers a letter from his excellency the governor of this day, enclosing a letter of resignation from Richard Potts, Esquire, as senator to the United States, and also an address from his excellency the governor, severally endorsed.... ORDERED, That Mr. Key, Mr. Carroll, Mr. John C. Thomas, Mr. Chapman and Mr. Barroll, be a committee to consider and report on the address from his excellency the governor.
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Text of Stone's address was published in the Maryland Gazette on November 24, 1796 -
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