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Commissioners of the Currency Office, speedily to call in the Interest
due on Bonds and other Securities, and all Monies due on Funds,
payable into the said Office; which was Read and Assented to, and
sent to the Upper House, with the Paper Bill, by Col. Scarborough,
and Mr. Hawkins.
The House adjourns till Monday Morning at 9 of the Clock

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

Monday Morning, 10^th March, 1755.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c. All appeared as
on Saturday, except Mr. Handy, Major Travers, and Capt. Addison.
Mr. Reeder, Capt. Gassaway, and Mr. Bordley, appeared in the
House. His Excellency communicated to Mr. Speaker the following
Message, viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
I submit to your Perusal some Letters and Papers that I have this
Morning received from Boston and New York. As the Expediency
of such a Restraining Law, as the Governors of Massachusetts-Bay
and New-York, request the Legislature of this Province to enact, is
exceedingly evident, I shall not offer any Arguments to inforce what
these Gentlemen have said, to incite us to concur with the Legisla-
ture of their respective Governments.
Hor.^o Sharpe.

Boston February 17, 1755

Sir
The Designs of the French/in which they have so far already
Succeeded/for Invading his Majestys Just Rights in these Northern
parts of America. Contrary to the most Solemn Treaties require
these Governments as well for their own Safety as in faithfulness
to his Majesty without Delay to use all Means in their power to
frustrate these perfidious & pernicious practices.
Among other Measures necessary to be taken Especially at this
Critical Conjecture (the present Aspect of Affairs threatning a
Speedy Rupture) nothing we can do seems Likely to tend more by
the Blessing of God to Defeat the Schemes of the French to swallow
up all his Majestys Dominions on the Continent in America, than
that the Governments should agree in the most Effectual Means for
Stopping all supplies of Provisions & Warlike Stores from being
Sent out of any of these Colonies Without the Inclosed Precaution
against their being Carried to the French.
The General Assembly of this Province have passed an Order
for that End (a Copy of which I now Inclose) and have Desired

March 10
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