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6 Instead of obliging any or every Person who shall kill Scalp or
take an Enemy Indian Prisoner to go before a Magistrate and make
Oath &c^a before he be Entituled to the reward for so doing and
then to apply to one of the Agents for such Reward would it not
be better to impower and direct the Commanding Officer at the Fort
or on the Expedition to Administer such Oath and make immediate
payment otherwise the Country will for some time lose the Service
of every one that shall be Successfull and as the Neighbouring Colo-
nies Offer and give much larger rewards than our Bill proposes for
Indian Prisoners and Scalps to all persons without distinction would
it not at least appear better if we did not restrain or Confine the
Reward to Inhabitants of this Province only.
These matters Gentlemen we Submit to your Consideration but
if you shall after perusal thereof be unwilling to make any altera-
tions in the Bill and be still desirous to have it pass in its present
form you shall not long want our Assent and Concurrence.
Signed p Order John Ross Cl: Up: Ho

Read the Petition of John Farrow a Voluntier in Capt Cag-
worthy's Company of Foot and who was draughted by General
Braddock into his Majestys 48 Regiment of Foot and by some Acci-
dent on his duty therein was rendered incapable of Service and
thereby discharged Praying Relief. Recommended to the Considera-
tion of the Lower house and sent by Benedict Calvert Esq :^r

A Message from the Lower house by Mess:^rs Earle and Bracco
By the Lower house of Assembly 14 :^th May 1756.
May it Please your Honours
In Answer to your Message of this afternoon by Samuel Chamber-
laine Esq:^r respecting the Bill for his Majesty Service now with
your Honours We can only say That as that Bill is framed Agree-
able to the free Conferrence of both houses We cannot agree to any
Alterations in it therefore request it may pass in its present form
As your Honours are pleased to tell us it shall if we don't approve
of what you have proposed
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl: Lo: Ho

Read the Bill Entituled an Act for Granting a Supply of Forty
thousand pounds for his Majestys Service and Striking Thirty four

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
May 14

Thousand and fifteen pounds six Shillings thereof in Bills of Credit
and raising a fund for Sinking the same and with the Amendments
agreed to by the Conferrees of both houses of Assembly will pass
Signed p Order John Ross Cl: Up Ho :

Two Engrossed Bills from the Lower house by Mess :^rsTraverse
and Reeder One Entituled an Act for the Relief of Certain Languish-
ing Prisoners in the Several County Goals therein mentioned the

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