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L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
September
24
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The Governor communicated to M.r Speaker the following Mes-
sage, viz.t
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
When, in Compliance with the Earl of Loudoun's Requisition, I
sent Instructions to the Officers of the Militia to enlist Men for
the Royal American Regiment, I persuaded myself that Part of the
Forty Thousand Pounds, lately granted for his Majesty's Service,
would, agreeable to his Royal Pleasure, have been appropriated many
Days ago to defray the Expence of raising a Number of Men in this
Province for the Regiment abovementioned, and that an Act would
have been passed for that Purpose, before any Demand could be
made on me for Money to defray such Expence; I am sorry to find
my Hopes were without Foundation: But as I am obliged, at this
Time, to pay a considerable Sum of Money for a Number of Recruits
that are already sent me, and expect to be called on every Hour for
larger Sums, I must desire you to inform me what Bills you have
Framed, or what Determination you have come to on the Matters
that I recommended to your Consideration at the Opening of this
Session. If you arc disposed to comply with the East of London's
Request, be pleased to fall on some Measures for supplying me
with Levy-Money, till such a Bill as I have recommended to you
to Frame can be prepared; or if you are (contrary to my Expecta-
tions) determined to pay no Regard to the Earl of Loudoun's Requi-
sition, you would oblige me by informing me thereof, that I may
know what I have to depend on, and, according to my Promise,
acquaint his Lordship with your Resolution.
Hor.o Sharpe.
September 24, 1756.
Major Hyland brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker the follow-
ing Report Viz.t
By the Committee appointed by the Honble the house of Dele-
gates to Inspect the Arms and Ammunition and Accounts relating
thereto September 21.st 1756.
Your Committee having Inspected the Arms and Ammunition in
the City of Annapolis do find that there are in the Possession of the
Armourer the following Arms and Ammunition Viz.t
In the Council Chamber Seventy bright Hilted Swords, twenty
good Trumpets, Six good Drums and Sticks, Nineteen Pikes, twenty
four Halberts, twenty Six Slings with Buckets, Sixty Six Slings
without Buckets, Eighteen Daggers, fifteen Sword blades.
Over the Council Chamber ten new Drums Compleat, Sixteen
pair of Drum Sticks twelve Buff Slings four Neat Leather Slings,
Six New Cartouch Boxes, twenty four old Ditto, In the Room over
the Conference Chamber, twenty Bayonets, Twenty five bright
Hilted Swords, and one brass Hilted Ditto one hundred and thirty
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