|
|
May 18
|
Friday Morning, May 18, 1750.
The House met according to Adjournment: the Members were
called, and all appeared as Yesterday. The Proceedings of Yester-
day were read.
Ordered, That the Committee of Accounts do not receive any
Accounts for Public Claims, after Tuesday next; and that they close
the Journal of Accounts on Thursday next.
Resolved, That this House will not take into Consideration any
new Business, this Session, after Tuesday next.
Mr. Richard Lloyd delivers to Mr. Speaker a Bill entituled, An
Act to enable the Justices of Kent County Court, for the Time being,
to levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the said County a Quantity
of Tobacco, for the Uses therein mentioned; which was read the first
Time, and ordered to lie on the Table.
Mr. Robert Lloyd, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr.
Speaker an Address to his Excellency the Governor; which was
read, approved, and ordered to be Ingrossed.
Mr. Robert Lloyd, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr.
Speaker the following Ingrossed Address; viz.
To his Excellency Samuel Ogle, Esq; Governor of Maryland;
The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency,
In a Report made by the Committee of this House, appointed to
inspect the Arms and Ammunition, are the following Paragraphs ;
viz.
' In the Room over the Conference Chamber, 72 old Muskets and
Carbines much out of Repair, 23 Pair of Holsters, 144 Swords, 25
Bayonets, 65 Sword Belts, 16 old Cutlasses, 6 new Drums, 14 Pis-
tols, 4 Chests of Match, and 15 Pair of Drum-sticks. —— In the
Council Chamber, 386 Muskets and Carbines, 71 Pistols, 20 Trum-
|
|
|
|
p. 32
|
pets, 8 Drums, 74 Swords, 44 Cartouch Boxes and Belts, 49 Hal-
berts and Pikes, 46 Buckets and Slings, 50 Sword Blades, and 18
Daggers. ——— Your Committee observe, that the 386 Muskets, also
the 14 Pistols, mentioned in the above Report, to outward Appear-
ance are clean; but upon examining the Insides and Locks of some
of them, do find, that they are rusty and out of Order, and could not
be fired in case of an Emergency.'
Upon Consideration whereof, we conceive, the Armourer, or Per-
son who hath the Charge of the same, and receives a considerable
|
|
