228 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
March 5

pounds by the Commissioners of the Loan office to his Excellency
the Governor to be by him laid out and disposed of for the Protection
and Security of the said Inhabitants and also to Enable him to pay
to any the Inhabitants of this Province who have or shall Kill and
Scalp or take alive any Indian Enemy the sum of Ten pounds Cur-
rent money and we will take proper measures in our Bill for Replacing
the said Sum that the Credit of our Currency may not be thereby
affected
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl: Lo: Ho :
Adjourned 'till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

March 6

Saturday Morning 6^th March 1756
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday Except Rich :^d Lee Esq.^r
This House sent the following Message by Col.^o Benjamin Tasker
By the Upper House of Assembly 6 March 1756
Gentlemen
In Answer to your Message of Yesterday by Mess:^rs Hall &
Williamson this House is willing that an ordinance of both houses
be made for the payment of £500 by the Commissioners of the Loan
Office to His Excellency the Governor to be by him disposed of for
the immediate Protection and Security of the Inhabitants on the
Frontiers and also to Enable him to pay any of the Inhabitants of
this Province who have or shall Kill and Scalp or take alive any
Indian Enemy the sum of Ten pounds Current money
Signed p Order John Ross Cl: up Ho
The following Ordinance is brought from the Lower House by
Mess:^rs Goldsborough and Henry

p. 56

For the immediate defence and Protection of the Frontier In-
habitants of this Province from the Cruelties and depredations of
the Indians It is Ordered by his Excellency the Governor and the
Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly that the Comm^rs or Trustees
for Emittings Bills of Credit Established by Act of Assembly shall
pay to his Excellency the Governor or his Order the sum of Five
hundred pounds Current money out of the Publick monies now in
their hands to be by him laid out and disposed of as well in the ful-
filling and performing his Engagements with the Parties Raised by
his Command by the Lieutenants Baker and Shelby and for the
payment of the sum of Ten pounds Current money to any of the
Inhabitants of this Province or friend Indian who have or shall
Kill and Scalp or take alive any Indian Enemy as for the further
Securing and defending the said Frontier Inhabitants in such man-
ner as to him shall seem Expedient and that the said Commissioners