A Bill from the Lower House by Col King and 12 Others En-
tituled An Act for issuing and paying out of the Office of the Com-
missioners or Trustees for emitting Bills of Credit established by
Act of Assembly of the province of Maryland the Sum of 2636 :16 :3
Current Money in Bills of Credit of this Province to be applyed for
Encouragement of such Persons as shall voluntarily enlist themselves
in his Majestys Service thus Endorsed
By the Lower House of Assembly 29 April 1740
Read the first time and ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
By the Lower House of Assembly 30 April 1740
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
Read the first time in this House & ordered to lye on the Table
and the following Message
By the Lower House of Assembly 30 April 1740
May 1t please Your Honours
We herewith send you a Bill Entituled an Act for issuing and pay-
ing out of the Office of the Commissioners or Trustees for emitting
Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly of the Province of
£ s. d.
Maryland the Sum of 2636:16:3 Current Money in Bills of Credit
of this Province to be applyed for Encouragement of such Persons
as shall voluntarily enlist themselves in his Majestys Service; And
as his Majestys Commissions therein mentioned may be hourly ex-
pected, We conceive it requisite it should be passed into a Law with
all convenient Speed, and therefore perswade Ourselves it will find
such Dispatch in your House, as the Nature of the thing requires
We have taken the freedom to nominate such of Your Honours
as live in the respective Counties as the Agents or persons to whom
the Distribution of the Money is to be committed, believing that as it
is a thing to be done particularly for his Majestys Service, Those
of the first Rank in the several Counties are the most proper to be
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