Letter Bk. I.

at all necessary. I also send you a Copy of my Speech to both
Houses of Assembly at the Opening of the Session lately held
at Baltimore Town, together with Copies of the Addresses
that I received in Answer thereto: & in the inclosed Gazette
You will see the Titles of all the Acts that were passed at the
Conclusion of it. The first entituled "An Act for His Maj-
esty's Service &c" contains nothing unusual or extraordinary,
it only appropriates what remained unexpended & unapplied
of the £40,000 to the Support of 500 Men which was thought
a reasonable Quota for this Province to maintain for the De-
fence of our Frontiers & the Service of the ensuing Cam-
paign. The Ten following ones are no more than reviving
& continuing Acts, & the Six others are simple & contain
nothing that can be disagreeable or that makes it expedient
for me to make Remarks on them at least before the Printer
can furnish me with Copies to remit for Your Perusal. After
the Titles of these Acts you may read in the Gazette a Copy
of a Letter which was sent to me a week before the Assembly
broke up by a Party of 60 Cherokee Indians for whom the
Gentlemen were so generous as to Vote the Sum of £100 as
a Present & to tell me that they would hereafter if they
should think their Accounts reasonable provide for the Pay-
ment of those that should by my Order supply them with
Provisions during their Stay on our Frontiers. As soon as a
proper Assortment of Goods to the Value of the Sum given
could be collected I sent My Secretary & M^r Wolstenholme

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to deliver them with my Answer, & as the Indians had by this
time been out & had returned again to the Fort with two
Enemy Indians that they had taken Prisoners & the Scalps of
four others that they had killed in or near the Frontiers of
this Province The Gentⁿ were enabled by that Clause of the
Act which appropriates a Sum of Money for Scalps to make
such an Addition to the Present as rendered it acceptable. I
have sent His Ldp a Copy of the Report that the Gentⁿ made
on their Return wherein is contained my Answer & the
Cherokee's Reply. We hear that the Party of these People
that came to Winchester (consisting of about 90) is gone out
with a Detachment of the Virginia Forces to fall on One of
the Shawana Towns that lye below Fort Du Quesne. I
expect that many of those that sent me the Letter will return
again to our Frontiers very soon & I hope they will contri-
bute much to the Security of our Frontier Inhabitants. By a
Person that came Yesterday from the Northward we are
informed that all the Men that Lord Loudoun proposed to
take with him from New York (amounting to upwards of