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The House Adjourns untill To Morrow Morning Eight of

the Clock.

Thursday Morning July the 20^th 1721
The House meet according to Adjournment
Present
His Honour Charles Calvert Esq^r Gov^r

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Col W^m Holland
Col M. T. Ward
Col Thomas Addison

Tho^s Bordley Esq^r
Col Richard Tilghman
Tames Bowles Esq^r

His Honour the Gov^r Communicates to this House a par^r
of a Letter from his Ex^cy W^m Burnett Esq^r Gov^r of New
York to him Dated April 1721 Which par^r is as follows Viz.

S^r The Inclosed Papers will Shew you both the Occasion
and Grounds of my Giving you this trouble if there is not
Speedy Care taken to repair the fortifications on the frontier
of New York And to build Some new ones The French will
soon have it in their Power to set the Indians on ruining all
the Colonys where the Plantations lye remote from great
Towns, I must therefore recomend it to you to Provide the
Six hundred and fifty Pounds which the King has named as
the Quota of your Province and transmitt it to New York to
be applyed as the Kings Instruction Directs.

The Papers referred to in the aforesaid Paragraph (and

sayd to be Instructions from the Crown) are as follow Viz.

Instruction 91. Whereas it has been thought requisite that
the Generall Security of our Plantations upon the Continent
of America be Provided for by a Contribution in Proportion
to the Respective Abilities of Each Plantation And Whereas
the Northern Frontiers of the Province of New York being
the next Exposed to an Enemie do require an Extraordinary
Charge for the Erecting and maintaining of forts necessary
for the Defence thereof And Whereas Orders were given by
King William the third for the advancing of £50 Sterling
Towards a fort in the Onondage Country And of two
thousand pounds Sterl Towards the Rebuilding of the Fort
at Albany and Schenectady, and Likewise by Letters under
his Royal Sign manuall Directed to the Gov^rs of Divers of the
Plantations to recommend to the Councills and Generall As-

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