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now have favourd me w^th if you will give your Selfe the
Trouble to Looke into yo^r acc^tts you will find Little Charge
has accrewed to the Country since my arivall by frequent
meettings & I designe to Continue it soe I shall allways be
just to what I have sev^rall Times since the meetting of this
assembly Given under my hand of my pticular reguard to the
good of this Province & if the Respects you have aimed me
be any Oppression or Difficulty to the Country I would by
noe means have you Straine yo^r Generosity beyond yo^r abil-
ityes and the more be Cause you seeme to be Concerned for
want of a Better ffund.

: Original

. Journal.

Gent this Leads me to acquaint you that my usage in this
place I mean at Annapolis has not been w^th the Respects of a
Common Constable in England besides the Slender Conveni-
encies of Life are not to be had but at much dearer rates then
Elsewhere If I were not very sensible I could serve his Maj^ty
as well in other parts of this Province as here my resolutions
should be to Continue though w^th the greatest difficulty I
never was yet in the meanest of his Maj^tyes Governm^ts abroad
but their is a house allways Provided for his Gov^r & other
necessarys are not to be had here but upon such Extravagant
termes as you are all sensible of and if you advise my staye
here I hope you will in some measure support it I am far
from being unreasonable in my Expectations & what Ever
Encouragement you shall minute me on yo^r Journall for my
stay here I have the vanity to believe will be saved to you in
my Endeavours otherwayes Gent I mett you w^th a great
Deale of Satisfaction & I hope we shall allways part soe when
Ever it pleases god we shall meett & as for myself I shall
Ever remember the Reciprocall promises wee Engaged on
both sides under our hands for I am Gent. Yo^r Humble
Servant
July 2 2^d 1699. N Blakiston

By the house of Dellegates Iuly 22^d 1699.

The Message by the Honble Thos Tench & Thos Brookes
Esq^rs has been here reed and read in answer to the Message
by M^r Simon Willmore & others
1: Resolved that the money proposed to his Ex^cy shall be
Immediately paid as proposed out of the Treasury one
hund'd pounds Sterl out of the hands of the Treasurer on the
Easterne Shore & one hund^rd & fifty pounds out of the hands
of the Treasurer on the Western Shore.
2: To the second thing proposed we Humbly offer th^t the
Act for regulateing the Militia of this Province Power is Given

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