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of its reply to the Governor, drawn up by its committee, the offensive phrase
" we are active and vigilant in detecting all Misapplications," many of the mem-
bers of the County party joining with the Proprietary following in voting
against this affront to the Governor. Later Sharpe submitted a detailed account
of his expenses to maintain the rangers, and the Lower House afterwards re-
luctantly approved the expenditure. This is apparently the undated account
printed in the Appendix (pages 674-5).

Another supplementary act to the £40,000 Supply Bill for His Majesty's
service extended the time for reporting private supplies of liquor for taxation
and for furnishing lists of taxable bachelors.

The Lower House then took up the consideration of the expenditure of
£25,000 for military purposes which had been appropriated under the terms
of the Supply Bill passed at the previous session. The bill as it was passed
provided that this £25,000 should be used to defray Maryland's share of the
costs of a joint military expedition with Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North
Carolina against the French and Indians. As this joint expedition had been
abandoned under the plan of campaign formulated by the British commander-in-
chief, Governor Loudoun, this sum now became available for other military pur-
poses, and the Lower House took under consideration a bill supplementing and
amending the Supply Bill for His Majesty's service. This supplementary bill
after considerable debate was finally passed. It provided for enlisting, pro-
visioning, and carrying to New York three hundred men for Loudoun's Royal
American Regiment, for one hundred additional militia to augment the two
hundred already on the frontier, for completing and garrisoning Fort Fred-
erick, for purchasing additional arms and ammunition, and for raising the
bounty on Indian scalps and Indian prisoners from £10 to £50. It will be noted
that the scalp bounty in our two-year period had been raised from £5 to £10,
and was now further increased to £50. This act also provided for the payment
of the disputed £630-2-8 for the rangers now adjusted at £620.

Again the question of the right of the Lord Proprietary to all money raised
by the two-shilling export tax on every hogshead of tobacco came to the fore.
A bill entitled "An Act for Settlement of an annual Revenue upon her Majesty's
Governor " was read in the Lower House on October 5th, and was ordered
printed in the Votes and Proceedings. The bill recited in detail the history
of the tobacco export tax, registered a protest against the payment of a moiety
to the Proprietary for the charges of government, and more particularly
to the appropriation by the Proprietary to himself of threepence of this moiety
of twelve shillings, set aside by Queen Anne to be used for the purposes of
defence. This act seems to have been read merely to record the sentiment of
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