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Tobacco and the other for a Ballance of 120..07..9 Currency Which
We doubt not You will think reasonable to allow,
8thly There is due to Captain Thomas Cresap 15£ Currency, for the
Carriage of Arms from Annapolis to the back Woods, for the Pub-
lick service and hope You will allow the Account thereof now sent
9thly -We find an Allowance of 59.. 12...6 Currency to M^r Michael
Macnemara, But as we were never made privy or consented to the
services in that Article, We cannot consent the same shall stand
We desire You will rectify the Journal by the aforementioned
Amendments Signed p Order J Ross Cl Up Ho.

U. H. J.

The several Paper Bills the Originals of which have passed this
House are sent to the Lower House by Col^o Plater
The following Message is sent by Col^o Lloyd
By the Upper House of Assembly 1 June 1744
Gentlemen
In Answer to your Message by Mess^rs Hall and Purnell We ap-
prehend that it may be doubtful Whether a Resolution of both
Houses would justify the Secretary against any private Person or
Persons who may suffer by his parting with Papers for the keeping
of which and all other Papers in his Office he has given large security,
and if the Copies of them be necessary We think the Country would
be as well served and secured if they were transcribed by his own
Clerk, provided Care be taken that the Transcript be exact, We also
think that under the Circumstances already mentioned the Secretary
has the best Right to the Advantage (if there be any) of transcribing
the Journals, which he is obliged to keep safely. But he declares
his Willingness to wave his Right provided an Act passes which
may effectually secure him for the Delivery of the said Journals that
are in his Possession
As to the Journals which M^r Ross has in his Possession, he has
acquainted us, that they were given by Governor Nicholson to Bene-
dict Leonard Calvert Esq^r late Governor of this Province who gave
them to him so that they are his Property, if he is willing to part
with them We have no Occasion to interpose. But if Copies of them
be of use, We think M^r Ross as capable as any Body to Transcribe
them Which We doubt not he is willing to do upon the same Terms,
as you are inclined to give your Clerk
Signed p Order J Ross Cl Up Ho

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

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Saturday Morning 2^d June 1744
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Sheredine
and Selby Entituled an Act for the Relief of Francis OConnor,

June 2