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364 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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ordered the same Committee to bring in a Bill for raising
£5000 Currency for His Majesty's Service.
The 27th of June .... The House ordered in a further Bill
for Continuing to prevent the Supply to the French &c.
The 29th of June .... A Bill was brought in for granting a
further Supply towards His Majesty's Service, read a first and
second time, and sent to the Upper House.
The same day .... The Lieut Governor sent a Message to
the Lower House acquainting them with Advices received
from Col Innes at Fort Cumberland, of the Loss of some of
the back Inhabitants of Frederick County Killed or Carried off
by the French Indians; and recommending it as highly proper
to them, about one hundred or at least a Company of Sixty
men to be Posted or Constantly ranging for some time on the
Frontiers for their Protection; and that the Assembly would
enable him to Support such a Number, and at the same time
acquainting them that he had at the Generals request Engaged
several Persons to receive and Convey any Letters between
that Place and Wills's Creek directed to the General or him-
self; And desiring them to Provide for the Expences thereof.
The same day .... The House Resolved to make Suitable
Provision for raising and paying Eighty men including officers
for Ranging for four months (if occasion) on the Frontiers of
the Province against the French or their Indian Allies, and
that they would defray the reasonable Expence of Intelligence
from Wills's Creek to Annapolis and back thither for four
months; and they at the same time appointed a Committee to
Enquire into ways and means for raising a Sum Sufficient for
the said Purposes: And the said Committee on the 30th of
the same month by their Report proposed that the Sum of
£1500 part of £4.016.. 6.. 0 Bills of Credit then remaining
Signed in the Currency office and not Circulated, should be
immediately Issued for defraying the said Expences; and a
Bill was ordered accordingly.
The Ist of July .... The Upper House return'd the Bill for
raising the £5000 with their Negative In regard the amount
of the Dutys for replacing the same appeared to them to be
very precarious, and there was no Provision in the Bill for
Supplying the Deficiency; and for, that part of the Duty was
on the Moneys arising on ordinary Licences the appropriation
of which was a disputable matter; but intreating the Assembly
when the Call for a Supply towards the Support of His
Majesty's Rights and their own Safety was so very Pressing, to
fall on some Expedient to render the Bill more perfect.
The 2d of Iuly .... The Lower House Resolved on a Mes-
sage to be sent to the Upper House for Enforcing the Supply
Bill.
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