320 Assembly Proceedings, June 2()-July 22, 1699.

Original
Journal.

Concurr with and signe the same this house will do the like
and dispatch the said Messenger that the same may be Com-
pleated and this house further Consider how to dispose of the
remaining part of the money Assigned for th^t use
Signed p Order
Chr. Gregory Cl house Delegate

The following Message sent from the house by Do^r Iacob
Lockerman and M^r In^o Carvile Viz^t

p. 49

By the house of Delegates Iuly the 7^th 1699.

The Message by the honble Charles Hutchins and Rob^t
Smith Esq^r has been here rec^d and read and this house and
this house has perused M^r Isaack Millers Letter and Acc^ts and
are of opinion that the Arms which are Come in Since his Ex^cy
Arrivall be Lodged in the Generall Magazine att the porte of
Annapolis Except the Drums and Trumpetts which it will be
necessary to dispose of to the Severall Countys where the
same are wanting for that the Delegates of Caecill Baltemore
Dorchester and S^t Marys Countys have rep^rsented to this
house that those Countys are not Supplyed with nor have
they any such Warlike Instruments among them:
And as for the three hundred and odd q^r Barrells of Gun-
powder this house do think it Adviseable for the p^rventing of
the Same being Spoyled or Dampnifyed that twelve Q^r Bar-
rells of Gun powder be sent to Each respective County to be
lodged for the Countys service and that the same be distributed
us the said Countys according to the discretion of the Colonel
or other principall Military Officer of the s^d County and that
Seaven whole Barrells of the said Gunpowder be Lodged in
the afores^d Generall Magazeen to be ready on any Emergent
Occasion the remaining part to be Equally Distributed and
sent to the Severall Colonels or other principall Military officer
of the said Countys to be by them disposed off and they to be
Accomptable to the Gen^ll Assembly of this Province for the
proceeds thereof or otherwise disposed of as your Ex^cy and
Councill shall think Convenient the produce thereof being for
the publick use
Signed p Order
C Gregory Cl house Del.

The following Answer thereto sent by the Hon^ble Thomas
Tench Esq^r Col Iohn Addison and M^r Attorney Gen^ll together
with the Ordinance for paying 25^l sterl to the Cool Springs
the Indenture for purchaseing the Land there, and the Att^ry
Gen^lls opinion upon the s^d Indenture. Viz^t