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Your Proposal to dispatch a Bill for Encouragement of his
Majestys Levies out of the Moneys arising from the Fund of Arms
and Ammunition, when in the former Part of your Message, you
tell us that perhaps the same Fund is not more than sufficient to
provide such necessary Arms and Ammunition as a prudent Cau-
tion in times of Peace (even against such like Conspiracies as have
lately happened among Our Negroes) might require, seems to us a
little contradictory, and not altogether to testify that unfeigned Zeal
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Calvert
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so often boasted of in several Parts of Your Message for his
Majestys Service.
And notwithstanding the great Handle that has been made, and
the Noise industriously spread over the province about Our negroes,
We must say, that from all the Enquiry We have been able to make,
we never could discover any thing which might in any Manner be
presumed to endanger the peace or Welfare of this Province, espe-
cially since the very few who had dared to think of any such Attempt,
by the prudent Care of the Government, have been already punished
and suppressed
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
Adjourned till Monday Morning ten of the Clock
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Monday Morning 12th of May 1740
This House met again according to Adjournment
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The Honble
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rMajor Genl M: Tilghman
Ward
Benjamin Tasker Esqr
Philip Lee Esqr
George Plater Esqr
Edmund Jenings Esqr
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Col Charles Hammond
Col Levin Gale
Col James Harris
Samuel Chamberlain Esqr
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Messrs Smith and Weems from the Lower House attend with Mr
John Brome a Member Elected for Calvert County in the Room of
John Mackall Esqr deceased, in Order to see him qualified, who
takes the Oaths to the Government appointed to be taken by Act of
Assembly and subscribes the Abjuration and Test according to the
Directions of the said Act, and then withdrew
Col Gale from the Committee to inspect the Accounts & Proceed-
ings of the Commissioners of the Paper Currency Office brings in
the following Report
At a Committee of Both Houses of Assembly appointed, to in-
spect the Office and Proceedings of the Commissioners for emitting
Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly ;
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