The Lower House. 333

Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Capt. Gassoway appeared in the House.
The House adjourns until the Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
March 15

Tuesday Morning, I6^th March, 1756.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
M.^r Reynolds hath Leave to go home.
The Governor communicated to M.^r Speaker the following Mes-
sage, viz.

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
The late Inhabitants of Nova-Scotia, mentioned in the inclosed
Letter, have, by the Advice of his Lordship's Council, been divided
and distributed to every Part of the Province, except Frederick
County: Most of them are, at present, entertained in such Gentle-
mens Families as Charity inclined to receive them; it remains with
you to dispose of them otherwise, or provide for their Support as
you shall judge proper. A Number of them that were put on Shore
at Oxford, and in Somerset County, were, till their Separation, sup-
plied with Provisions and some Necessaries by M.^r Callister and
Capt. Lowes, as you will learn from those Gentlemens Accounts,
which they desire me to lay before you, hoping that you will reim-
burse them the Expences they have been at, as well as discharge
Mr. Middleton's Bill for carrying some of those People from An-
napolis to Baltimore by my Order. I must also recommend it to
you to repay the Officers of the Militia of Csecil, Kent, and Fred-
erick Counties, what they expended on the Alarm in November last,
when it was believed, in those Counties, that a large Body of Indians
were advancing toward the Center of the Province. The Bundle of
Letters and Papers herewith sent will shew you, how much each of
those Gentlemen expended, what induced them to do so, and per-
suaded them that the Safety of the Province indispensably required it.
16^th March 1756 Hor.^o Sharpe.
Which was read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

March 16

The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post Meridiem.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Major Hynson, M.^r Wallis, and M.^r Ward, appeared in the House.
On Motion, the Question was put, Whether the Tax mentioned
in the Report, by the Committee of Ways and Means, to be laid
on Marriage-Licences, shall be altered, or Not? Resolved in the
Negative.
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