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At a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis
the Sixth Day of November in the Thirty second year of the Domin-
ion of the Right Honourable Charles Absolute Lord and Proprietary
of the Province of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore
&c. Anno Domini 1746 And ending the twelfth Day of the same
Month
The following Law was Enacte'd and Assented to by his Excel-
lency Thomas Bladen Esquire Governour
An Act for issuing and Paying out of the Office of the Commis-
sioners or Trustees for Emitting Bills of Credit Established by
Act of Assembly the sum of nine Hundred Pounds Current
money in Bills of Credit As also for the payment of Two Hun-
dred pounds Sterling money for purchasing Provisions for his
Majesty's Forces raised in this Province and other purposes and
for Continuing part of an Act therein mentioned.
Whereas at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of
Annapolis the Seventeenth Day of June Anno Domini One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred forty and Six An Act did pass Entituled An
Act for issuing & taking out of the Office of the Commissioners or
Trustees appointed for Emitting Bills of Credit Established by Act
of Assembly the sum of Four Thousand five hundred Pounds Cur-
rent money for encouragement of such able Bodied Freemen as shall
Voluntarily Enlist themselves into his Majestys Service for the in-
tended expedition against Canada & for maintaining and Conveying
them to the Place of Rendezvous as also for replacing of the said
sum and for the better Regulating Ordinaries and Ordinary keepers
and for other purposes therein mentioned In Consequence whereof
the Number of three Hundred men were raised within this Province
and with their Officers sent to Albany in the Province of New York
agreeable to his Majesty's Expectation Expressed in his Grace the
Duke of New Castles Letter to his Excellency the Governour of this
Province dated at Whitehall April the Nineth Seventeen Hundred
forty and Six And Whereas by the said Letter the Officers were to
receive Pay from the time of their Engaging in his Majesty's Service
and the Soldiers from the Respective days of Enlisting and which
Pay it was Humbly Conceived would Subsist them in Necessary
Provisions after their Arrival at the Place of Rendezvous But in as
much as it is now represented to this General Assembly that the said
Forces are in great Distress for want of Provisions We his Majesty's
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