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the Repayment of the said Sum of Six thousand Pounds or so much
thereof as shall be taken out of the said Office, and applied to the
uses aforesaid until there shall be a sufficient sum raised to Repay and
satisfy the same to the said Office
We conceive that A Provision would be necessary in this intended
Act, that the said sum of Six Thousand Pounds or so much thereof
as shall not be paid and expended by the said Commissioners or
Agents as aforesaid, to and for the uses and purposes afores^d shall
be by them regularly accounted for, and such Surplus ought to be
deemed and taken as so much Money belonging to the Publick, and
to be by the said Commissioners or Agents repaid into the said Office,
and there placed to the Credit of the aforesaid Loan
All which your Committee humbly submit to the Consideration
of the House Signed p Order J Bordley, Ci. Com.

Which was Read and Ordered to lie on the Table.
M^r Speaker communicated to the House, the Governors answer to
the Address of this House.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly
The Satisfaction you express in my calling you together, and com-
municating his Majestys Commands to you, so soon, and your Reso-
lution to let them have the Preference in your Deliberations to all
other Business give me a great deal of Pleasure, and I am sure no
good Subject will ever imagine his Majesty either desires or expects
we should neglect the reviving or enacting such Laws as tend to the
Defence of the Province, and general Utility of the People, and have
been long in Use amongst them Sam: Ogle

The House Adjourns to the Morrow Morning at nine of the Clock

L. H. J.

Thursday Morning July 10^th 1740

The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
On reading the Report brought in from the Committee appointed
to consider of Ways and Means for raising a Fund for maintaining
his Majesty's Troops to be raised in this Province &c^a the House
concurs therewith and Ordered that the Committee of Laws prepare
and bring in a Bill accordingly
The Question was put whether the Bill entituled, An Act for the
Transportation of Forces and Troops to be raised in this Province
for his Majestys Service in the West Indies, sent from the Upper
House should be read or not, Resolved in the Negative
The House Adjourns to two of the Clock in the Afternoon

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