At a Council held at the house of his Excellency the Gov-
ernor in the City of Annapolis on Wednesday the 13^th of June
in the 30^th year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini
1744

Present

His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor

The honourable-

Benjamin Tasker Esqr Edmund Jenings Esqr Col Charles Hammond

Philip Thomas Esqr Daniel Dulany Esqr

	Ordered that toward defraying the Expences of the Gentle- men appointed by his Excellency as Commissioners to go up to Lancaster Town in the Province of Pensilvania, and to treat with the Indians, and in making such Presents to the Indians as shall be by them the said Commissioners thought necessary, the Clerk of this Board draw for the Sum of three hundred Pounds sterl in six setts of Bills of Exchange of fifty
	Pounds Each payable in blank, and that Mr Hyde be desired to charge the same to the Ballance of 3d p hhd for Arms lodged in his hands by Robert Ungle Esqr late Treasurer of the East- ern Shoar; the form of which Bills is as follows; and the sd Bills were delivered to Edmund Jenings Esqr At forty days sight of this first Bill of Exchange, second third and fourth of the same Tenor and Date unpaid pay to or his Order the sum of fifty Pounds Sterling and place the same to the Acco' of the Monies lodged in your hands on the Fund of 3d for Arms by the late Robert Ungle Esqr Treasurer of the Eastern Shoar of the Province of Mary- land, agreeable to your Account Current of the said Fund sent to Saml Chamberlain Esqr J. Ross Cl Concl. and the following Lre was delivered with the said Bills Sir We have directed Mr Ross Clerk of the Council to draw on you several Setts of Bills of Exchange to be paid out of the	P. 223