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whole Barrel of old Ditto, no Kegs of Shot, and 2 half Barrels
of Ditto.
There are 10 old Guns lying on the Point, near Mr. Patrick
Creagh's Warehouse, not fit for Use, and 15 new Ditto without Car-
riages, much rustied, and will, in all Probability, be much damaged,
if not speedily prevented.
All which is humbly submitted to your Honourable House.
Signed per Order, Benjamin Beall, Clerk.
Which was read, and Ordered, that the Committee of Laws do
prepare an Address to his Excellency, requesting him to remove the
present Armourer, and to appoint some able Person to act in the said
Office, and to request his Excellency to dispose of the Money raised
for Arms, to purchase Arms to be distributed on the Frontiers of
this Province.
Doctor Carroll, from the Committee of Laws, brings in, and
delivers to Mr. Speaker an Address to his Excellency; which was
read, approved, and ordered to be ingrossed.

The House adjourns till the morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
May 29

p. 457

Thursday, May 30, 1754.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c. all appeared as
Yesterday, except Mr. Buchanan.
Col. Hooper, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr. Speaker
a Bill entituled, A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled, An Act
for the speedy and effectual Publication of the Laws of this Prov-
ince; and for the Encouragement of Jonas Green, of the City of
Annapolis, Printer: Which was read the first and second Time, by
an especial Order, and will pass, and was sent to the Upper House,
by Mr. Gray and Mr. Govane.
Doctor Carroll, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr.
Speaker the following ingrossed Address, viz.
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.
The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency,
By the Report of a Committee of this House hereunto annexed, we
find, that the Arms are in bad Order, through the Neglect of the
Armourer; wherefore we humbly conceive, that some Other, who
would execute his Duty with more Care, should be placed in his Room,
that the Arms may be kept in more effectual Order for Service.
As there is now in the Hands of the Treasurers of this Province,
Sterling Money for purchasing Arms and Ammunition for Defence
of the same, we submit it to your Excellency, Whether at this Time,

May 30