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Wednesday Morning 3^d March 1756
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday and Col :^o Hammond
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem die Post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
March 3

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

p. 55

Thursday Morning 4:^th March 1756
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the afternoon

Eodem die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Adjourned 'till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

March 4

Friday Morning 5^th March 1756
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the afternoon

Eodem die Post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
A Message from the Lower House by Mess:^rs Hall and Wil-
liamson
By the Lower House of Assembly March 5^th 1756
May it Please your Honours
We have now under our Consideration a Bill for the defence of
the Province but as it Requires time to Frame it with Propriety
and to agree on means to Raise a fit Sum of money for the necessary
and Important Purpose and in the mean time our Frontier Inhabit-
ants may be greatly distressed if not Speedily assisted We desire
your Concurrence to an Ordinance for the payment of five hundred

March 5