The Upper House. 505

Tuesday Morning 3^d June 1740

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as
yesterday with the Addition of Major General Matt^w Tilghman
Ward
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Col King and
Eleven Others, Entituled an Act for issuing and paying out of the
Office of the Commissioners or Trustees for emitting Bills of Credit
established by Act of Assembly the Sum of 2562:10:0 Current
Money in Bills of Credit to be applyed for the Encouragement of
Persons voluntarily inlisting themselves in his Majestys Service
thus subscribed
3^d June 1740
Read and Assented by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara G Lo H.

Read and assented to by this House and ordered to be so sub-
scribed the Paper Bill so Endorsed is sent to the Lower House by
Benj^a Tasker Esq^r
Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as
in the Morning
The following Message is sent by George Plater Esq^r

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No. 735
June 3

By the Upper House of Assembly 3^d June 1740
Gentlemen
We are under a necessity of reminding you that in one of your
Messages last Convention, you asserted that £2500 Sterling: of the
Three Pence per Hogshead for Arms, &c^a was unaccounted for in
any manner this Message was Printed among your Proceedings, and
not only dispersed all over the Province, but also carried into some
of the Neighbouring Colonies; no man who read that part of Your
Message could imagine, that a Lower House of Assembly would
without any Foundation charge a Governor and Council with so
great a Crime as Embezzling Publick Money, and yet there was
not the least Foundation for that Charge, and we make no doubt
but that you are fully convinced that there was not, nor could pos-
sibly be without the Connivance at least of former Lower Houses
before whom you know it has been the Custom to lay the Accounts
of that Fund every Sessions of Assembly, and from whose Inspec-
tion it was impossible to conceal such a Sum, or any thing like it
out of a Fund that raised but about 300 l communibus Annis; we
have mentioned this thing to you more than once this Session, and

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