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a Constitution founded on a Chearful and Voluntary Obe-
dience, Then Great Sir, your own Royal Virtues shone forth
in the Actions of your Son and at Once dispelled Our Fears
of French shackles and secured to Us the Freedom of
Englishmen
May Your Majestys Reign be long, very long over Us, and
when It is no more, May the Throne of Great Britain ever be
filled with One of Your Majestys Royall Blood to protect us
from Popery and Arbitrary Power
T Bladen
Benj^a Tasker Pres^t

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on the 4^th Day
of September in the 32^d year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoq Domini 1746

Present
His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r | Daniel Dulany Esq^r
Edmund Jenings Esq^r | Benjamin Young Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond | Col Benjamin Tasker

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board a Letter
received by him from the honble George Clinton Esq^r Gover-
nor of New York desiring that the Three Companies raised
in this Province may be sent away as soon as possible; and
also to acquaint this Board that several of the Agents appointed
by Act of Assembly to receive the Bounty Money for the sol-
diers had refused the Payment thereof to the Officers who had
Orders from the Men that were enlisted to receive the same,
and which Bounty Money if not paid to the soldiers would
greatly retard the sending them away.

Lib. C. B.

It is the humble Advice of this Board that the following
Letter be wrote to such of the Agents who have refused the
Payment of the said Bounty Money

Sir
I have seen your Letter to Captain Daniel Campbell
wherein you not only make a Difficulty of paying the Money in
your hands appropriated for his Majestys Service, but have
not thought fit even to send an Account of what Sums have
been claimed from you as due from the Persons inlisted.
I am now to make known to you, that I am by Express
from the Northward put under an indispensible Necessity of
dispatching away immediately the Three Companies raised
here; This I am unable at present to comply with for Want of

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