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

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
April 1

Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
M.^r Mills and M.^r John Reeder have Leave to go home.

His Excellency the Governor communicated to M.^r Speaker the
following Message, viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
The Inclosed, I hope, will convince you, that the £500 some Time
since granted for the Support of some Parties of Rangers, for the
Protection of the Frontiers, is already expended; and as the Officers
apply to me for more Money to subsist and pay their Men, who
cannot, it seems, live on Expectations that some Provision will be
hereafter made for them, I find myself under a Necessity of enforcing
the Message that I sent you in the Morning, having not Money
myself to support those Parties till the Supply Bill, that you say is
under your Consideration, may be enacted into a Law.
April I 1756 Hor.^o Sharpe.

The Pay of Lieutenants Shelby and Baker's Parties to
the 3 Ist of March, by their Letters and Returns sent 125 7 0
me, must amount to, at least, ....................
Victualling the said Parties to the same Time, ........ 68 8 8

p. 212

Forty Blankets sent to Conococheague for them, Car-
riage included, about ........................... 30 0 0
The Pay of Capt. Dagworthy's Company, ordered to
come down towards Conococheague, from the 10th 67 2 6
to the 3Ist of March, ..........................
The Pay of Lieutenant Stoddert's Party for the same
Time, ....................................... 14 3 6
Victualling them for the same Time, ................ 11 4 0
Major Prather, in his Letter and Return, dated the 19th
.of March, said he had then 40 Men, and expected to
be joined by many more Recruits within a Day or

two: The Pay of these Men to the 3Ist, ............
Expence of Victualling them will be about ............ 30 0 0
Forty Blankets sent Major Prather; Carriage thereof,
and of Arms and Ammunition to Conococheague, 36 0 0
about ....................................
Several Expresses sent, the Expence whereof will be
at least ..................................... 8 0 0

Expended already £436 5 0

Capt. Alexander tieall said that he should, in Pursuance of my
Orders, march to the Frontiers with a Party of near 40 Men on
the 29th, or 3oth of March at farthest; for the Payment and Sub-