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thereunto belonging, Was read at the Board & ordered to
be Endorsed will pass Nemine Contradicente
Again the afd Bill was ordered a Second reading and being
read & Endorsed, Read the second time & passed Was
ordered to be carryed to the House of Delegates by all the
members of this Board
Charles Carrol Esqr the Lord Proprietary's Agent Major
Hicks & Benjamin Woodward by their Council appeared
according to notice given them
But Mr John Brannock who said he was of Council for the
said Woodward alledging that Mr Wornell Hunt the Person
originally employed to Sollicit the Bill is gone to Philadelphia
And that he is not prepared with Sufficient Council further
time is given him till five of the Clock to morrow in the
Evening at which time the said Bill is ordered to be read &
all Party's to attend
The Board adjourned till nine of the Clock to morrow
morning
Wednesday May the 4th 1715
The Honble his Majesty's Council in Assembly Sate.
Present as Yesterday save Mr Philemon Lloyd
His Excell was pleased to communicate to the Board the
6gth Article of his Instructions Viz
You are to take especial Care fitt Store Houses be Settled
throughout this our Province for receiving and keeping the
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publick Arms & Ammunition and all other publick Stores
Also the 67th Article of his Instructions in the following
Tenour Viz.
You are to demand an Account from all persons concerned
of the Arms & Ammunition and Stores sent to our said
Province from the Office of Ordinance here as likewise what
other Arms Ammunition & Stores have been bought with the
publick mony for the Service of our said Province, and how
the same have been employed, And whither any of them and
how many of them have been sold, spent Lost, decayed, or
disposed of, and to whom & to what uses, which account is to
commence from the time that the last Account was delivered
in to the late Governour of that Province and you are to
transmitt the said Account to us And to our Commrs for
Trade and Plantations as afd
Whereupon It is ordered that the Colonels of the Militia
in the several Countys forthwith enquire what publick Arms
& Ammunition there is in their Several Countys, And what
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