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

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
March 5

The following Message, viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, March 5, 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 upon Means to raise a fit Sum of Money for this
necessary and important Purpose, and in the mean Time our Frontier
Inhabitants may be greatly distressed, if not speedily assisted; we
desire your Concurrence to an Ordinance for the Payment of Five
Hundred 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 Current 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 per Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.

Was sent to the Upper House, by Major Hall and M.^r Williamson.
The House adjourns till the Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.

March 6

Saturday Morning, 6^th March, 1756.

The House met according to Adjournment, The members were
called and all appeared as Yesterday, except Col. Tilghman (absent
through Sickness), M.^r B. Mackall, Capt. Jordan, M.^r Tolley, M.^r
Smith, and M.^r Eraser.

M.^r Bordley appeared in the House.
M.^r Edmondson, M.^r Tilghman, and M.^r Edge, have Leave of the
House to go home.
His Excellency communicated to M.^r Speaker, the following
Message, viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
Inclosed you have an Account how the Six Thousand Pounds,

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that was granted by the last Assembly, for his Majesty's Service,
has been expended; as I have not Time to examine Colonel Cresap's
Accounts, I must desire your Committee to do it, and have ordered
him to attend for that Purpose. Herewith you also receive the
Journals of Captains Beall, Ridgely, and Beall, who, in Obedience
to my Orders, on the Alarm in October last, marched with Parties
of the Militia from Prince-George's, Anne-Arundel, and Frederick
Counties, to range on the Western Frontiers, for the Protection of
the Inhabitants: Their Services I recommend to your Consideration,
and hope you will not be averse to rewarding them.
5 :^th of March 1756 Hor.^o Sharpe.