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Act intituled, An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco, &c. which
was read and assented to, and sent to the Upper House, with the
Paper Bill, by Capt. Lee and Mr. Williamson.
The House having taken into Consideration his Excellency's Mes-
sage of Yesterday, and the Governor of Virginia's Letter to his Excel-
lency, and by him communicated to Mr. Speaker: Resolved, That ar
Address be prepared to his Excellency to set forth therein, That this
House hath determined not to grant a Supply, for raising Men or
Money at this present Juncture, for the Purposes in the said Message
required.
Ordered, That Mr. Tilghman, Doctor Carroll, Major Hall, and
Doctor Hamilton, do prepare and bring in an Address accordingly.
Col. Hammond, from the Upper House, delivers to Mr. Speaker,
the Bill intituled, An Act for his Majesty's Service, and the following
Message, viz.
By the Upper House of Assembly, March 7, 1754.
Gentlemen,
We are as desirous that a Present may be made to the Indians, to
cultivate their Friendship at this Juncture, and to do every Thing in
our Power for his Majesty's Service, as you can be, and therefore
passed the Bill intituled, An Act for his Majesty's Service, with the
Application of the Money on the Ordinary License Law, which would
replace it in a very short Time; and we having now re-considered the
said Bill, cannot in any other Manner pass the same.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
The House adjourns till the morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
March 7
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Fryday, March 8, 1754.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c. all appeared as
Yesterday, except Major Ridgely.
Doctor Hamilton, from the Committee appointed, brings in and
delivers to Mr. Speaker an Address to his Excellency, in Answer to
his Message of the 6th Instant, which was read, approved, and
ordered to be ingrossed.
His Excellency communicates to Mr. Speaker the following Mes-
sage, viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
The favourable Opinion you have been pleased to conceive of my
religious and civil Principles, I shall endeavour to preserve, by coun-
tenancing or encouraging none but such as are esteemed sincere
Friends to the present happy Establishment both in Church and State :
and as I never desire to see extraordinary Power in Hands where it
may endanger the Safety and Welfare of his Majesty's good Protes-
tant Subjects, you shall not want my Concurrence in any Thing
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p. 400
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