The Lower House. 399

For the Negative,

T. Reeder, Jordan, Murdock,
Hammond, Jenifer, Fraser,
Hall, M. Tilghman, Hawkins,
Gassaway, Edge, E. Tilghman,
Carroll, Paca, B. Handy,
Reynolds, Govane, Chapline,
Smallwood, Ward, Beall.
Stoddert, Addison, [23]

For the Affirmative,

Hynson, Edmondson, Lloyd,
Williamson, Travers, Casson,
R. Henry, Dulany, Bracco. [9]

The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
The following Message, viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, April 30, 1756.
May it please your Honours,
As we had, in the Bill last sent up to you, for granting Forty

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
April 30

Thousand Pounds for his Majesty's Service, and our own Security,
and which you have returned with a Negative, made Alterations in
almost every Part of our two former Bills to which you objected,
we were in Hopes to have had your Honours Concurrence to that
Bill. But since you tell us in your Message of the 29th, accompany-
ing it, That our third Bill is so little differing from the other Two,
that you think yourselves obliged not to pass it, we think it necessary
now to enumerate all the Amendments we have made, in Consequence
of your Objections to our first Bill, and to which you referred when
you sent down the others, that it may appear what Alterations we
agreed to, and what Concessions we made, even contrary to our just
Rights, to obtain a Law for his Majesty's Service, and our own
Safety, at this Time of common Danger so absolutely necessary:
We are informed, that the most commodious Part of the Frontier,
for constructing a Fort and Block-Houses for the Defence thereof,
is on or near the North-Mountain, and not beyond it, as mentioned
in our second, and also third Bill. We did in our third, as in our
second Bill, rate the Pay of Commissary of Stores. A Pay-Master
of the Troops, which may be raised for the intended Expedition, we
conceive, may be appointed by the Commander in Chief, and his
Salary paid out of the general Stock, which may be contributed by
the several Governments towards the Expedition.

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