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Ordered That no Petitions be received this Sessions after
Thursday next
The following Message being prepared is ordered to be
entered Viz.

By the House of Delegates
May the ninth 1715

May it please your Excellency,

We find in the Journal of October Assembly 1714 the
following.

May it please your Excellency,
" Your Excellency on the humble Address of this House of
" the 2d of July 1714, praying Directions to be given her
" Majesty's Receivers to lay their Account (of the 3d p Hhd,
" applyed by her Majesty for purchasing Arms and Ammuni-
" tion, for the Defence of this Province) before this House this
" Sessions, was pleased to return in Answer thereto That
" Directions were given the said Receivers accordingly, but
" the same not being as yet done, We pray your Excy's further
" Directions about the same, and that an Account of the Fines
" and Forfeitures received by the said Receivers be likewise
" laid before this House this Sessions "
Signed p Order Tho. Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

But that Sessions of Assembly not proceeding on any
Business nothing was done therein therefore we beg Leave
to remind your Excy thereof that the said Accounts be laid
before us this Sessions
Signed p Order Tho. Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

L. H. J.

Sent up to his Excy the Governor by Mr Hamilton, Mr Hill,
Capt. Codd, Major Phillips, Mr Dashield and Mr Solomon
Clayton.
They return and say they delivered the Message.
Col^o William Coursey and John Hall Esqr from the Honble
Council deliver Mr Speaker the following Message Viz.

By his Excy the Governor and Council in Assembly
May the 9th 1715

In Answer to your Message by Mr Hambleton and others his
Excy is pleased to acquaint you that Mr John Rousby his
Majesty's Receiver of the District of Patuxt has given him his
Account of the 3d p Hhd appropriated for purchasing Arms
which shall be laid before your House in the Afternoon, and

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