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L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
September
23
P. 335
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are undisciplined as well as badly Armed and cannot be compelled
to serve in defence of their Country. The white Inhabitants in
Maryland are near 108,000 and the black upwards of 46,000 I
apprehend 26,000. of the former are able to bear Arms but all
Civil Officers, Roman Catholicks and Servants being exempted by
Law or Custom the Militia does not exceed the Number above
Mentioned. There are no works in this Province that deserves the
name of Fortifications, Just behind and among our Westermost
Settlements are some small Stoccado or palisaded Forts built by
the Inhabitants for the Protection of their Wives and Children:
and besides these there is one larger tho' in my Opinion not much
more capable of Defence on Potowmack about 56 Miles beyond
our Settlements it has been Distinguished by the Appellation of
Fort Cumberland, and is at present Garrisoned by three Hundred
Men from Virginia; it is made with Stoccadoes only and commanded
almost on every side by circunjacent Hills a Considerable Quantity
of Military Stores that was left by General Braddock still Remains
there, and ten of the Carriage Guns that his Majesty was pleased
to Order to Virginia two years ago are mounted therein.
M.r Lloyd, from the Committee appointed, brings in and delivers
to M.r Speaker the following Report, viz.
By the Committee, appointed by the Honourable the Lower House
of Assembly to examine into the Accounts of the Agents appointed
for executing Part of an Act of Assembly, entituled, An Act for
granting a Supply of Forty Thousand Pounds for his Majesty's
Service, and striking Thirty-four. Thousand and Fifteen Pounds
Six Shillings thereof in Bills of Credit, and raising a Fund for
sinking the same. September 23, 1756.
Your Committee having examined the several Accounts and
Vouchers, produced to them by the said Agents, do find, That they
have received, by Order of his Excellency the Governor, at sundry
Times, Sums of Money amounting in the whole to £6600.17.0 Part
of which Sum appears to your Committee to have been, by the said
Agents, paid and expended in Manner following.
To Michael Vanbuskart, Lieutenant of Capt. Beall's
Company, for his Charge of Enlisting Men, ... £ 43 2 6
To John Kidd, Ensign to Capt. Dagworthy, for
Enlisting Two Men,...................... 2 5 0
To sundry Persons, for Medicines, Liquors, Work-
ing Tools, and Kitchen Utensils of all Sorts,
Nails, and other Iron Ware, Provisions of all
Sorts, Wages to Carpenters, Masons, Miners,
and Labourers, together with Cart and Wag- 1711 8 2 1/4
gon Hire, including the Sum of £250 paid
for the Purchase of the Land whereon the
Fort is Erecting, ........................
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