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The following Message being Prepared is sent to the Lower House
by Col.o Hammond
By the Upper House of Assembly 1st April 1756
Gentlemen
In Answer to your Message of this day by Mess:rs Edge and
Earle this House is willing that an Ordinance of both houses be
made for the payment of Two hundred and fifty pounds Currency
by the Commissioners of the Loan Office to his Excellency the
Governor for the further Protection of Our Frontier Inhabitants
Signed p Order John Ross Cl: Up: Ho
The following Ordinance from the Lower House by Mess:rs
Bordley and Edge
For the further defence and Protection of the Frontier Inhabitants
of this Province from the Cruelties and depredations of the Indians
It is Ordained by his Excellency the Governor and the Upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly that the Commissioners or Trustees
for Emitting the Bills of Credit Established by Act of Assembly
shall pay to his Excellency the Governor or his Order the sum of
Two hundred and fifty pounds Current money out of the Pub-
lick monies now in their hands to be by him laid out and disposed
of as well for the Payment of the sum of Ten pounds Current money
to any of the Inhabitants of this Province or friend Indian who have
killed or shall kill and Scalp or take alive any Indian Enemy as for
the further Securing and defending the said Frontier Inhabitants
in such manner as to him shall seem expedient and that the said
Commissioners or Trustees Charge such payment in a Particular and
Distinct Account to be kept by them for that purpose
Horatio Sharpe
Ist April 1756
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order Henry Hooper Speaker
1st April 1756
Read and Assented to by the Upper house of Assembly
Signed p Order Benj :a Tasker President
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock
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