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Justices of the several County Courts, to make Provision for the
late Inhabitants of Nova-Scotia, and for regulating their conduct.
And an ingrossed Bill entituled, An Act for the Assessment and Pay-
ment of the Public Charges of this Province; which were severally
read and assented to, and sent to the Upper House, with the Paper
Bills thereof, by M.^r John Handy and M.^r John Reeder.
His Excellency the Governor communicated to M.^r Speaker the
following Message, viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
When I laid before you a Copy of the Ordinance, made and agreed
to by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, of the Province
of the Massachusetts-Bay, together with his Excellency General
Shirley's Letter, desiring that a Person might be impowered also, by
this Government, to indent for and receive the Arms and Ammuni-
tion that his Majesty has been most graciously pleased to order for
our Use, I was in Hopes that you would have framed a short Bill
for that Purpose; and, lest the Officer that his Majesty has appointed
to distribute the Arms, should, upon Enquiry, find, that a Resolve of
your House is not equivalent to an Act of the Legislature, and
thereupon refuse to deliver them, I must recommend it to you to
prepare such a Bill, and thereby authorize the Treasurers to defray
the Expence of conveying the Ammunition and Arms hither,
the 22^d May 1756 Hor.^o Sharpe.

The following Message, viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, 22^d May, 1756.
May it please your Honours,
We desire your Honours Concurrence to the Ordinance herewith
sent, impowering his Excellency to appoint a Person to receive and
indent for the Proportion of Arms and Ammunition his Majesty
has been pleased to order for our Use; and for impowering the
Treasurers to defray the Expence of bringing the same into this
Province.
Signed p Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.

And the following Ordinance, viz.^t
Whereas his Majesty has been graciously pleased to order Ten
Thousand Stands of Arms, and a proportionable Quantity of Ammu-
nition, to be employed for the Service of his Colonies, as from
Time to Time there shall be Occasion; and it is required that each
Colony, to which any of those Arms shall be delivered, give Security
to return them to the Officer his Majesty has been pleased to appoint,
except in Case of their being lost in Battle, or taken or destroyed
by the Enemy: And it being necessary that some Person should
be appointed to receive the Proportion of said Arms and Ammuni-
tion, which may be allotted for this Government, It is Ordained by
his Excellency the Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
May 22
p. 288