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Who make Choice of the honourable Benjamin Tasker Esqr
Chairman and Thomas Jennings Clerk.
The Conferees of the Upper House delivered themselves in the
Words following Gentlemen
As your House has desired this Conference We have it in Com-
mand from Our House to hear and receive what further you have
to propose and offer on the subject Matters of the Messages between
the Houses
To which the Conferees of the Lower House answered
We propose to confer with your Honours about the Heads of a
Bill for Encouragement of such Freemen as shall voluntarily inlist
themselves in his Majestys service, and about the Sum to be raised
for purchasing Arms and Ammunition, and the Time of the Con-,
tinuance of the Bill for that Purpose, agreeable to Our Message of
the 17th Instant
Upon which the Conferees of the Upper House say they desire
to withdraw to make their Report to their House
In the Afternoon the Conferees met again Heads agreed on
towards a Bill for encouraging Freemen &c.
That no Bounty should be given to any Serjeant Corporal or
Drummer
That whatever Bounty should be distributed, all, or any Part
thereof be paid towards Satisfaction of their Debts (if any) that
the Soldiers may owe
That such Soldiers shall be exempted for seven Years after their
Return from all Publick County and Parish Charges whatever, as
also from the Necessity of attending on the High Ways
That Every Soldier either in marching or travelling on any part
of his Duty or service shall have his Ferriage free
Upon considering the heads of a Bill for encouraging Freemen to
enlist in his Majesty's Service
The Conferees of the Lower House propose to raise the sum of
2636:16:3 Current Money, to be applyed to such Freemen as shall
inlist in his Majestys Service
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