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Your Committee also observe, that the Receipts appear to support
his Excellency's Account for Expresses; but that it does not appear
in M.^r Green's Account for Postage of Letters, paid by the Governor,
on what Service they were sent.
All which is submitted to the Consideration of your Honourable
House.
(Signed -p Order.) B. Nicholson, Clerk.

Upon Reading the said Report, Resolved, That the Sum of
£630.2.8 contained in Two Orders, drawn by his Excellency on
the Agents appointed by the Act For granting a Supply of £40 000
&c. and paid by the said Agents, were not in Pursuance of the said
Act, or warranted thereby.
Resolved also, That any Charge for the Postage of Letters, directed
to his Excellency the Governor, and properly Indorsed and Signed
for his Majesty's Service, ought not to be allowed.
On Reading the said Report, the Question was put, Whether the
Governor shall be paid for Expresses, by an Allowance in the
Journal of Accounts, or by any other Method Resolved, That his
Excellency be paid by an Allowance in the Journal of Accounts.

L. H. J.

Liber No. 48
September
30
P. 350

For Payment in the Journal,

T. Reeder, Stoddert, Murdock,
Wallis, J. Reeder, Fraser,
Hammond, J. Handy, Hawkins,
Gassaway, Waggaman, Bracco,
Worthington, M. Tilghman, Henry,
Reynolds, Hyland, B. Handy,
J. J. Mackall, Ward, Crabb,
Smallwood, Addison, Beall. [24]

For Payment by another Method,

Mills, Gray, W. Dulany,
Hynson, Travers, Casson,
Jenifer, Smith, Chapline.
Dennis, D. Dulany, [11]

On Motion, Resolved, That his Excellency be reimbursed the
£630.2.8 paid to the Rangers, in Pursuance of an Address of this
House last Session, and that the same be applied out of the £25,000
already raised by the Act For granting a Supply of £40000 &c.

The House adjourns until the Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.

Friday Morning 1^st October, 1756.

The House met according to Adjournment: All the Members
appeared as Yesterday, except M.^r Paca and M.^r Earle.

October 1