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

Liber H. S.
No. 1

which shall be undertaken by this Province for his Majesty's Ser-
vice, in Conjunction with all the Governments aforesaid, or Virginia
and Pennsylvania only, in Case Carolina should fail to join therein,
Twenty-five Thousand Pounds, including Commissions to the Agents
aforesaid.
And be it Enacted, That M.^r William Murdock, M.^r James Dick,

[Agents
appointed.]

and M.^r Daniel Wolstenholme, shall be and are hereby appointed
Agents, to execute and perform the several Matters and Things
herein after mentioned and expressed, that is to say, for the purchas-
ing and procuring all such Tools, Cloaths, Provisions, Arms, and

[Their
Duty.]

other Warlike Stores, and transporting and conveying the same, as
shall be necessary and requite for the Officers and Soldiers in Garri-
son, in the said Fort and Block-Houses, to be built on such con-
venient Places on or near and not beyond the North-Mountain, and in

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such Form as his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; or the Governor
or Commander in Chief, for the Time being, shall direct and ap-
point, and for the Payment of the Workmen, and the said Officers
and Soldiers, that shall be in the same, or any others, that shall
be enlisted or raised by Virtue of this Act for any Expedition, and
for cloathing, providing for and arming the same, and for purchasing
and contracting for any necessary Stores for his Majesty's Service,
for the Purposes in this Act mentioned.
And be it further Enacted, That the Governor or Commander

[The Agents
for purchas-
ing, provid-
ing, &c. upon
Order from
the Governor
for that

Purpose, to

apply to the
Commis-
sioners for
such Sums
of Money as
they shall
judge
necessary.]

in Chief, for the Time being, shall be, and is hereby impowered to
issue his Order to the said Agents for the purchasing, providing and
transporting all such Arms, Provisions, Cloaths, and other Neces-
saries, for the Services and Purposes aforesaid, and for such Sums
of Money for Payment of the Officers and Soldiers in Garrison in
the said Fort and Block-Houses, as he, from Time to Time, shall
judge needful, expressing in such Orders for which of the Services
mentioned in this Act such Arms, Provisions, Cloaths, and other
Necessaries, are to be applied. And the said Agents, and their Suc-
cessors, or the major Part of them, shall and they are hereby impow-
ered and obliged, on Receipt of every Order and Direction, forth-
with to call for, demand and receive, from the Commissioners or
Trustees, established by Act of Assembly for emitting Bills of Credit,
who are hereby obliged to pay the same, all such Sums of Money
as they shall judge necessary to comply with such Order and Direc-
tion; and shall immediately proceed to contract for, procure and
transport, all such necessary Supplies, as in the said Order shall be

[The Agents
to pay 10 1.
for every
Scalp to the
Person pro-
ducing a
Certificate
thereof
from the
Magistrate.]

mentioned and directed.
And be it further Enacted, That for every Scalp of an Indian
Enemy (being the Skin of the Crown of the Head), and for every
live Indian Enemy, which any Person, Inhabitant of this Province,
or Indian in Friendship and Alliance with his Majesty's Subjects,
shall produce to any Magistrate of this Province (and which Scalp
such Magistrate shall burn and destroy), the aforesaid Magistrate