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Your Committee have also annexed to this Report, the Several
Orders and Receipts, mentioned in the foregoing Report as may
appear. All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of the
Honourable House Signed per Order Tho: Jennings Cl. Com.

Present in Council, March 17. 1742
The Governor

L. H. J.

The Hon. Benjamin Tasker Esq^r The Hon. Col. Levin Gale
Edmund Jenings Esq^r Philip Thomas Esq^r
Col. Charles Hammond Daniel Dulany Esq^r

By the Governor and Council March 17. 1742
Ordered, That the Honourable Col. Charles Hammond, Treas-
urer of the Western Shore, pay to the Honourable Levin Gale Esq^r
or order, out of the Duty of 3^d per Hogshead, for Arms and Am-
munition, the Sum of one Hundred and ffour pounds, Ten Shillings
and Eleven pence, Sterling; being so much laid out by him, in the
Purchase of Sundry Goods at Philadelphia, as presents for the In-
dians; and Money advanced by him to Conrad Weiser, the Indian
Interpreter &c. as per Account Appears. J Ross G. Cou.
Pay the Contents to M^r Benjamin Tasker, or Order.
Levin Gale
To Col. Hammond, Treasurer of the Western Shore
Received of Col. Hammond, Bills of Exchange, for the within
Sum B. Tasker
May 4^th 1743.

Present in Council, [July]1, 1743.
The Governor,
The Hon. Benjamin Tasker Esq^r The Hon. Col. Levin Gale
Edmund Jenings Esq^r Daniel Dulany Esq^r
At a Council held in the Council Chamber, on the ffirst Day of
[July], Anno Domini 1743.

(28 Md.
Arch.,
Coun. 297)

Present his Excellency the Governor in Council.
Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western or Eastern Shore,
or either of them, draw an Order or Orders on the Merchants in
London, in whose Hands the Duty of 3* Sterling per Hogshead, for
Arms, is lodged by them, payable to the Honourable Levin Gale Esq^r
or Order, out of the said Duty, for the Sum of Two Hundred and
ffifty pounds, Sterling, to purchase such Goods in England, as shall
be thought Requisite by him the said Gale, in Order to be presented
to the Indians at the intended Treaty betwixt them and the Commis-
sioners appointed on behalf of this Province. J. Ross, Cl. Cou.
July 4. 1743 Received of Charles Hammond Treasurer of the
Western Shore, Orders on M^r Samuel Hyde, Merchant in London,
for one Hundred Pounds sterling by Virtue of the above Order
Levin Gale

(28 Md.
Arch.,
Coun. 305)