The Lower House. 153

A Motion, that Leave be given to bring in a Bill, For the Support
of an Agent to manage Affairs of this Province, in Great-Britain,
was granted :
Ordered, That the Committee of Laws do prepare and bring in a
Bill accordingly.

The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Philip Hammond, Esq; from the Committee for enquiring into
Ways and Means, &c. brings in, and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the
following Report, viz.
By the Committee appointed by the House of Delegates, for
enquiring into Ways and Means to raise a Sum sufficient for Pay-
ment of Eighty Rangers, to protect and defend the Frontiers, and
for defraying the Expence of conveying Intelligence from Wills's-
Creek to Annapolis, and back thither.

L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
June 30

Your Committee propose, That the Sum of £1500 Part of the
£40 I 5.. 6 Bills of Credit now remaining signed in the Paper Cur-
rency Office, and not yet circulated, be immediately issued and
made current.
And that for the sinking the said £1500 the following Duties be
laid, viz.

Duty of i|d. per Gallon, on all Rum imported in Country
Bottoms, ...................................... £300
Additional Duty on all Wine, of 2d. per Gallon, to be im-
ported, other than immediately from Great-Britain,..... 100
Additional Duty on Convicts, of 53. each, ................ 125

Which is per Annum, £525
All which is humbly submitted to your Honourable House,
p Order, Thomas Johnson, Jun.^r Clk Comm.

Which was read, and the House concurs therewith.
Ordered, That the Committee of Laws do prepare and bring in a
Bill accordingly.
The House adjourns till the morrow Morning at 8 of the Clock.

p. 113

Tuesday, 1st July, 1755.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Col. Tilghman, from the Committee of Laws, brings in, and
delivers to Mr. Speaker, a Bill entituled, An Act for purchasing Two
Acres of Land in the Upper Part of Worcester Parish, in Worcester

July 1