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L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
May 22
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Assembly, That any Person his Excellency shall name and appoint,
be, and is hereby impowered to receive the said Arms and Ammuni-
tion, and that this Government will stand and be security, for return-
ing to the Officer his Majesty has been pleased to appoint as afore-
said, any Number of said Arms, which may be delivered to the said
Person, so appointed to receive the same, except in Case of their
being lost in Battle, or taken or destroyed by the Enemy; and that
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the said Person be impowered to indent according. And it is further
Ordained, That the Treasurers of this Province shall, by Order under
the Hand of his Excellency, defray the Expence of conveying and
bringing the said Arms and Ammunition into the same, and that
the said Expence be allowed them in their respective Accounts.
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly,
Signed p Order, Henry Hooper, Speaker.
Were sent to the Upper House by M.r John Goldsborough and
M.r Carroll.
On Motion, Ordered, That the Affair of M.r John Rawlings,
of Frederick County, which was referred last Session to be consid-
ered this Session, be referred for Consideration to the next Session
of Assembly.
M.r Carroll, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and delivers
to M.r Speaker an Address to his Excellency; which was read,
approved, and ordered to be ingrossed.
M.r Carroll, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and delivers to
M.r Speaker the following ingrossed Address, viz.t
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; Governor and Commander
in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.
The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency,
This House has agreed to an Ordiance, to be made in Concurrence
with your Excellency and the Upper House, that any Person you
shall please to appoint, shall be impowered to indent for and receive
the Arms and Ammunition that his Majesty has been pleased to order
for our Use; and that this Province will stand and be Security to
return to the Officer, any Number of Arms which may be delivered
for the Use of this Province, except such of them as may be taken
in Battle, or destroyed by the Enemy: and that the Treasurers of
this Province shall pay the Expence of bringing hither the said
Arms and Ammunition, for which they shall be allowed in their
Accounts.
Which was read and assented to, and signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That Capt. Jenifer and M.r Matthew Tilghman do ac-
quaint his Excellency, That this House hath prepared an Address, to
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