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by all Parties whose Duty it is to obey it, & I shall likewise
give such an Instruction to the Naval Officer concerning the
Duty to be paid by the Vessels that are employed in fetching
Iron Ore to Virga as Your Ldp is pleased to approve of. As
both Mr Baker & Mr Thomas live at a considerable Distance
it will not I imagine be easy to get them to meet at this
season, but I shall endeavour to bring them together as soon
as possible & will do every thing in my Power to have that
Affair of the Tenement in Talbot mannour settled forthwith.
Your Ldp's Instruction with regard to Mr Dulany's being
appointed Commissary General in the Room of Mr Tasker
has been already complied with; & at the opening of the last
Session of Assembly the 4th Inst. Mr Bordley was admitted a
member of the Council & Upper House agreeable to Your
Ldp's Instructions. The Lower House having again shewn
that they are determined never to grant any money for the
King's Service unless the Upper House will pass without any
material Alterations the Bill which they have so often refused,
& the Gentn of the Upper House being on their Part as sted-
fastly resolved never to assent thereto, I have at the pressing
Instances of Your Ldp's Council prorogued the Assembly to
the Middle of Iuly before which time I expect the Gentln will
advise me to prorogue them to a longer Day. I am informed
by a Gentn who is just come hither from Philaa that before he
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left that City Governor Denny had given his Assent to a Bill
for Raising £100000 & supporting 2700 men for the ensuing
Campaign, by which Bill the Proprietaries Estate, as well their
Quit Rents as their Reserved Land &c. is made liable to be
taxed by Assessors of the People's Choosing, which Point
Your Ldp knows has been long the Subject of Dispute &
Contention between the Goverr & Assembly of that Province.
These Troops which the Pensilvanians are to raise together
with the 1500 Men which the Virginians have agreed to keep
up are to act in Conjunction this Summer with the Ist Bat-
talion of Royal Americans under the Command of Brigadier
Stanwix & to be employed in building a Strong Fort at the
Conflux of the Ohio & Monongahela Rivers as Your Ldp will
see by a Copy of Mr Secretary Pitts Letter which with other
Papers I have transmitted to Mr Calvert to be laid before you.
It is said the following Regiments viz. the17th 27th 42d 44th
40th 55th the 4th Battalion of Royal Americans, 2d Battalion of
the Royal Scotch, one Battalion of the New Highland Regi-
ment, the 4 New York Independant Companies General
Gage's Light Infantry & 7 Companies of Rangers with about
10000 Provincials which will be furnished by the Northern
Colonies are to make another Attempt on Ticonderoga this
Summer under the Command of General Amherst, but there
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