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Service and will as the more Extensive be therefore the more agre-
able to his Royal Will and Pleasure, so we do now for the last time
leave it to your Determination Whether You will pass the Bill as it
now stands or for the sake of destroying the latter part of that Bill
calculated for the Benefit of his Majestys Subjects of this Province
prevent likewise that considerable Aid for his Garrison at Louis-
burgh which We have so chearfully resolved to give
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman Ct Lo Ho.
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Nine of the Clock

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34

Friday Morning 23 August 1745
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
A Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Selby and Oughton Ent^d
A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled an Act to enable the
Commrs therein named to lay out forty Acres of Land into 80 Lotts
for a Town on Indian River in Worcester County as also for forty
Acres of Land into Eighty Lotts at the head of Asseateague Creek
at a Place commonly called the Trap for a Town thus endorsed
By the Lower House of Assembly 21 August 1745
Read the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman CJ Lo Ho.
By the Lower House of Assembly 22 August 1745

August 23

Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman Ci Lo Ho.
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
The Bill entituled an Act for raising the sum of 3000£ Current
Money and two Pence Sterling p hhd for his Majestys service to-
wards supporting the Garrison of Louisburgh on Cape Breton and
for the Purposes therein mentioned is read Again and will not pass
and sent to the Lower House with the following Message by Daniel
Dulany Esq^r and Col^o Tasker.
By the Upper House of Assembly 23 August 1745
Gentlemen
The Reasons You are pleased to give why you cannot agree with
Our Amendments are first because you conceive it to be the un-
doubted Right of the House of Delegates alone to raise upon the
People any sum of Money or other Tax &c^a This We conceive to be
a most extraordinary Claim and such as no House of Commons

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