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some Forts which are built on the Frontiers of that Province.
What Report I shall be obliged to make to Mr Pitt & the Gen-
eral when I answer their several Letters You will easily guess
when I inform you that having Voted 400 Men the Lower
House Resolved (23 against 21) to send up their favourite
Assessment Bill again, which was in effect Resolving that they
would not pay the least Regard to His Majesty's Requisition,
for they cannot I am sure believe that the other Branches of
the Legislature after making such a Stand for several Years
will now at length invest them with such Power as must in the
End subvert our Constitution, especially when there is room
to think that it is not of much Consequence to the Success ot
His Majesty's Arms or the Security of these Colonies whether
any Troops are raised in this province or not. Having advised
you of what is now doing here which you will be pleased to
communicate to His Ldp, I proceed in answer to your several
Letters to inform you that having upon the Receipt of Your
Packett from Mr Maynadier sent to Mr Dulany & Mr Bordley
the Letters which you were pleased to inclose for those Gen-
tlemen, the former came to my House the second or third Day
afterwards & gave me to understand that he was acquainted
with the purport of the Instructions which you had transmitted
to me concerning his being appointed Your Deputy in the
Stead of Mr Ridout, whereupon I communicated to him Your
Requisition with respect to the Sum of £300 to be by him
annually paid to you as his Superiour, to which he answered
that he would comply: Agreeable therefore to His Lordship's
Instructions I sent to Mr Bordley & upon his waiting on me
I informed him of Mr Dulany's Intention to resign the Com-
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missary's Office for that of Deputy Secretary communicating
to him at the same time His Ldp's Expectations & yours that
he would accept the Commissary's Office upon Mr Dulany's
quitting it so that Mr Ridout might be appointed Naval
Officer of this Port, but I am sorry to inform you that I found
Mr Bordley absolutely averse to relinquishing the Naval Office
for that of Commissary General & tho I have since talked to
him again on the Subject & importuned him to accept, my
Representations have had no Effect; wherefore as you have
been pleased to appoint Mr Dulany your Deputy & he is very
pressing for his Commission I am reduced to the Necessity
either of leaving Mr Ridout entirely unprovided for (a Step
which after what has passed would convince every Man in the
Province that I have little Interest with either His Ldp or
Yourself) or of appointing him to an Office which as he never
expected it he doubts his own Ability to discharge as he could
wish tho as I am persuaded he will in the Administration of it
have the strictest Regard to Justice & Equity & will spare no
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