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in Order to be sent on a Journey to Connostogo with a Mes-
sage from the Government to the Indians for the Countrys
Service which was prevented upon hearing from the said
Indians Yet nevertheless by occasion thereof the within Ex-
pences have Accrued We therefore referr the said John
Talbott to your House for an Allowance for the Same As
also for his own Trouble & Loss of time and for his Men and

U. H. J.

horses
Signed p Ord^r Joh Beale Cl Up house

Sent by Esq^r Bowles to the Lower house Who returns and
Says he has Delivered the Same
The house Adjourns untill to Mor Morning Eight a Clock

Tuesday mor: Aug^t the 1^st 1721.
The House Meet according to Adjournment
Present
His Honour Charles Calvert Esq^r Governour

Col Holland Col Addison Esq^r Lloyd
Col Tilghman Col Ward Esq^r Bordley & Esq^r Bowles.

The Account of Francis Bowes for Entertainm^t to Severall
Indians and their Interpreters by Order of his Honour the
Governour and Councill amounting in the whole to 19: 10: 0
being read is Order'd to be thus Endorst

By the Upper house of Assembly

August the 1^st 1721
Gentlemen. The Within Indians (amongst which Was

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Towena a Great man of Sinequas & the King of the Tus-
keroras) for which the within Account was Charged was
Sent to the within Francis Bowes by Order of the Governour
and Councill, they the said Indians having Come to Waite
on the Governour to make a Treaty of Peace with him
towards a reconciliation of Some Differences w^th Some of the
Inhabitants of Prince Georges County. Wherefore We
referr the said Bowes to your house for an Allowance of the
w^thin Account
Signed p order Joh Beale Cl. Up. house

M^r Hill and M^r Warfield from the lower house Deliver His
Honour the Gov^r

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