The Upper House. 275

At a free Conference of the Members of both houses of Assembly
the 5-^th Day of May 1756 in the Paper Currency Office.

Present

U. H. J.

Liber No. 35
May 11

| Philip Thomas Esq^r |
The Hon.^ble | and |of the Upper House
| Col:^o Benjamin Tasker

Philip Hammond Esq ^r

Col^o Edward Tilghman

M :^r Murdock | of the Lower House
M :^r Mathew Tilghman

and
M :^r Carroll

Who then chose Philip Thomas Esq:^r Chairman and Stephen
Bordley Jun :^r Clk
The Conferrees Adjourn to half an hour after two OClock Post
meridiem Who met accordingly, and agreed that in the 22^d page
of the Bill Entituled an Act for Granting a Supply of Forty thousand
pounds for his Majestys Service and Striking Thirty four Thousand
and fifteen pounds six Shillings thereof in Bills of Credit and raising
a fund for Sinking the same after the word Province in the Second
line the words (for the time being should be inserted And in the
third line of the same Page after the word Liquors the following
words and shall be Comissioned for that Purpose by the Governor
or Commander in Chief for the time being

Agreed also that the sum of money to be paid by Private Con-
sumers not rendering an Account upon Oath or affirmation if a
Quaker of the Liquors they Consume to the Collectors of Excise
be Twenty Shillings half yearly
The Conferrees Adjourn till to Morrow Morning nine oClock
and met accordingly
They Adjourn to half an hour after Two oClock Post Meridiem
And met according to Adjournment
A Proposal was made by the Conferrees of the Lower house in
Order to Obviate an objection of the Upper house of the uncertainty

of the funds proposed in the last Bill of undoubtedly Sinking the
money proposed to be raised by that Bill for his Majestys Service
in five years That three Gentlemen of the Upper house and Twelve
of the Lower house should be Nominated in the Bill who or the
Majority of them or the Survivors of them should meet at the
Paper Office on the I 5^th day of February in the year 1760 and
Inspect the State of the Funds That the Commissioners of the Paper
Office should be under proper penalties if their Accounts were not
on the said 15th day of February in such Order as to Shew the

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