The Lower House. 645

On Motion, the Report from the Committee appointed to Inspect
the Office and Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Paper-
Currency-Office, was Read, and the House concurs therewith.
On Motion, the Question was put, That an Address be prepared
to his Excellency, to request him to direct that the Bonds of the
several Clerks and Sheriffs, complained of in the said Report, be
forthwith put in Suit.
Ordered, That M/ Daniel Dulany, M.' Matthew Tilghman, and
M.^r Carroll, do prepare and bring in such Address.

L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
October 8

His Excellency communicated to M.^r Speaker the following Mes-
sage, viz.^t
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
1 find by your Address of the second Instant, that you were not
well pleased with the Agents for having repaid me Part of the Money
that 1 had advanced for the Protection of the Frontiers, and that
you concluded, from my having drawn on them for such Money,
that 1 suspected your House would refuse to comply with their most
solemn Engagement. 1 confess 1 was not sorry to see you a little
warm while you attributed that Step of mine to such a Motive;
but if you are not Conscious of having ever given me Reason, why
would you suppose that 1 harboured such a Suspicion, or imagined,
that when you declared you would consider of some Method to re-
imburse me, you intended otherwise than to provide for my being
immediately repaid the Money, that, upon the Faith of such an En-
gagement, 1 should advance ? In Fact, 1 wanted the Money to raise
Recruits, agreeable to the Earl of Loudoun's Requisition: To that
Use has it been, for the most part, appropriated; and thereby near
a Third Part of the Men that you have Voted, are already raised
for the Royal American Regiment.
Gentlemen,
In Compliance with your Request, 1 have recurred to the latter
Part of your Address, dated the 24th of September, and am still of
Opinion, that both that and your Proceedings, from the Opening
of this Session to that Time, sufficiently justify the Expression, at
which you were offended; and 1 appeal to every one that shall be
informed how you have employed yourselves this Session, Whether
1 have by that, or any other Expression in the Message, done you
the least Injustice.
October 8, 1756. Hor.^o Sharpe.

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

p. 371

Saturday Morning, 9^th October, 1756.

The House met according to Adjournment: All the Members
appeared as Yesterday, except Capt. Smith and Col.^o Addison.

October 9