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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 135
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"Votes of the House Mercurii 11th Die Decembris 1754.
" The order of the Day being read for the House to resolve
itself into a Committee of the whole House to Consider of the
Bill for Punishg Mutiny & Desertion & for the better payment
of the Army & their Quarters Ordered, That it be an Instn to
the said Committee, that they have Power to receive a Clause
or Clauses to provide, that all Officers & Soldiers of any
Troops being Mustered & in pay wh are or shall be raised in
any of the British Provinces in America by Authority of the
Respective Governors or Goverments thereof, shall at all Times
& in all Places when they happen to join or Act in Conjunc-
tion with his Majesty's British Forces, be liable to Martial Law
& Discipline in like manner to all intents and Purposes as the
British Forces are, & shall be Subject to the same Tryal Penal-
ties & Punishments."
Decr the 17th On closing, I have yrs Octr the 25th Williams-
bourg Virginia, I immediately Delivered yrs Inclosed at Sr Thos
Robinson Secy of State & yrs to Lord Baltimore who says, yr
Intelligence is obliging. The 20th Instant I was with Sr Thos
who said he had lain your Letr before the King & that his
Majesty express'd, he was pleased with the Contents. This
Day I have yrs the 2d & 15th of Sepr with the Duplicates of the
Laws in Feby & May last. The remark you make on the Law
concerng Ordinary Licences pass'd in 1746 Rectifyes the Mis-
take of the Uppr House being out three or four years by Cal-
culation. The Revd Mr Copp you have not heard of continues
in Carolina The Benefice intend'd for him, My Lord gives
you leave to dispose of & of St Johns & Christ Church in
Queen Anne County their Income is so smal 'tis Difficult to
get Clergy here to Accept. Tis with concern I understand
from you the progress of the French & their Strenghing them-
selves by Forts on Monongahala River in the Ohio Country,
& that they have begun one on Greenbrier River in Augusta
County Virginia, too Near Maryland, however by yrs Octr the
25th the Money being Arriv'd from England to Virginia & that
the Comand of his Majesty's Forces being in you I am in
hopes, the Aid came in Time to Enable you to a Defeat of
them & their Designs. The Colonies have been Dilitory in
their Supplys, the preversness of the Assemblys has occasion'd
some of the Govrs to Apply Home for an Act of Parliament to
be obligatory on the Colonies, to Contribute their Quotas in
Defence of his Majestys American Dominion. The Consid-
eration of the Govermt thereon I can't say however it wod be
Best the Americans did not Subject themselves to Tax from
hence.
Inclosed is the Report of the Lords of Trade to the Lords of
the Council abt the Import of Salt from Foreign parts to Maryland
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