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of Credit established by Act of Assembly and desire your Honours
to appoint one or more of the Members of your House to join in
the said Committee
Signed p : Order M Macnemara Cl 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
Mess.^rs Henry and Wilson attend with M.^r Waggaman a Member
elected for Somerset County to see him qualified who takes the Oaths
to the Government appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly repeats
and subscribes the Abjuration and Test and then withdraws.
Adjourned 'till to Morrow Morning 10. of the Clock

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
Oct. 3

Thursday [sic; Tuesday] Morning 4: of Oct.^r 1757.
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday.

The following Message is sent to the Lower House by Sam :
Chamberlaine Esq :

Gentlemen

This House hath named Samuel Chamberlaine Esq : to join the
Members appointed by your House in a Committee to inspect the
Accounts and Proceedings of the Comm :^rs of the Paper Currency
Office.
Sign'd p. Order J Ross Cl. Upp. Ho.

Oct. 4

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 and Richard Lee Esq.

The Governor is pleased to communicate to this House his Answer
to their Address in the following Words.

Gentlemen of the upper House of Assembly

I return your Thanks for your obliging Address which confirms
me in the Opinion that I have always entertained of your Zeal for
his Majesty's Service and convinces me of your being willing to
provide for the Support of the Troops that it has been found neces-
sary to raise for the Defence of this Province, as well as desirous

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