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Day to have met at the City of Annapolis be further prorogued
to Tuesday the 22^d Instant and Proclamation issued accord-
ingly.

At a Council held at the house of his Excellency the Gov-
ernor in the City of Annapolis on Monday the 28^th Day of
December in the 33^d year of his Lordps Dominion Annoq
Domini 1747.
Present

His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor
Th honourable Benjamin Tasker Esq^rl Daniel Dulany Esq^r
Edmund Jenings Esq^r Col Benjamin Tasker.

Upon reading and considering the Letter of Governor
Shirley & Commodore Knowles laid before this Board by his
Excellency on Tuesday the first Instant, It is the humble
Advice of this Board that his Excellency be pleased to send
the following Answer thereto.

Gentlemen
On Receipt of your Letter of the 10^th of October, which did
not come to my hands till the 27^th of November, and in
Obedience to his Majestys Pleasure signifyed by his Grace the
Duke of Newcastle in his Letter to your selves of the 30^th of
last May I called Our Assembly, to whom I communicated his
Majestys Expectations, and their Result you will find in the
Copy, which I now inclose, of their Address to me on that
Subject
The Enlistments were made during the Administration of
M^r Bladen, and none of the Officers of the Troops raised here
being now in this Province I am incapable of returning you
the particular Account you desire of the Muster Rolls, Enlist-
ments, Deaths of Officers & Soldiers Dismissions or Desertions,
Furloes, or upon what Command or Duty the Officers or Men
have been respectively employed; But as they were soon after

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the compleating the Companies transported to New York, in
which Government they have ever since continued, I doubt
not but M^r Clinton by the Information of the respective
Officers can satisfy you in these several particulars
As to the Expences incurred on Account of the Troops
raised here and disbursed either by this Province or by M^r
Bladen (both which I observe the Duke of Newcastle expects
to be transmitted to him) I send you as authentick Accounts
thereof as I can possibly procure, and hope they will be suffi-
cient for your Adjustment to be laid before the Parliament

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