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depending had so much weight as to put an End to all Dis-
putes & bring about a Passage of the Bill in a form to which
the Gentlemen of the Upper House had no Objection, but
when the other Bill for Payment of the Militia was taken into
Consideration the Gentlemen of the Upper House for several
Reasons which they mentioned in a Message thought fit to
return it with a negative. I expected to have been furnished
by this time with a Copy of the Proceedings of the Upper
House at least during the late Session, but no Copy being yet
made, I shall in order that you may see what Bills were passed
into Laws take the liberty to send you a Gazette that contains
the Titles of such Laws which will I flatter myself when I can
transmit them be well approved of, but as some of them
especially the Inspection Law are pretty long it will I appre-
hend be some Months before they can be printed. You will
see by the Journals when it is in my power to transmit them
to you that as the £40000 Act which was made in 1756 & by
which the Ordinary Lycence Fines were among other Funds
appropriated towards sinking the Bills of Credit then emitted
was to expire at the End of the late Session the Lower House
thereupon framed a Bill for appropriating the said Fines
towards the Establishment & support of a College which
seemed to have many Friends in the Upper House also, but
was referred to a distant Day for mature Consideration, which
Reference was the occasion of some Messages between the
two Houses not altogether amicable. Having miscarried in
their Attempt to appropriate the Ordinary Lycence Fines to
that use, upon my recommending it to the two Houses a few
Days before they broke up to make some Provision for the
Defence & Security of the Frontier Inhabitants who were then
terrified by an Incursion which a Party of Indians had made
into a Pennsylvania Settlement contiguous to Frederick
County the Gentlemen of the Lower House prepared a Bill
for raising & supporting a Company of Men during one year
& for continuing & appropriating the Ordinary Lycence Fines
during the Term of seven years in order to sink the Money
which should be issued for the Support of such Company, but
as there was already Surplus Money enough in the Loan Office
to defray such an Expence the Gentlemen of the Upper
House would not agree to the Appropriating to such use or
mortgaging the Ordinary Lycence Fines for so long a Term
& so that Bill likewise dropt & of course there is at present
no Law for Lycencing or Regulating Ordinaries within this
Province, which has not I think been the Case for near twenty
years, the Fines having during that Period been always appro-
priated by some Act or other which had been made for pro-
moting His Majesty's Service. Since I am on this Subject
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