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Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.

On Motion, That the Examination of the Books and Accounts of
the Agents, appointed by the Act for Raising £40,000 &c. for his
Majesty's Service, &c. be Referred to the next Session of Assembly :
Resolved, That the same be Referred for Examination next
Session of Assembly.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
May 7

Benedict Calvert, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker, the Bill, entituled, An Act for the speedy Payment of
sundry Persons therein mentioned; Indorsed, " By the Upper House
of Assembly 6^th May 1757, read the first time and ordered to lie
on the table and thus By the Upper House of Assembly, May 7th,
1757. Read the second Time, and will Pass.
Signed p Order. J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.

And the Bill, entituled, An Act to prevent the Exportation or
Carrying out of this Province, Ammunition, &c. towards supplying
the French, or their Allies; Indorsed, " By the House of Assembly,
5^th May 1757. Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table,
and thus By the Upper House of Assembly, 7th May, 1757. Read
the second Time, and will Pass, the Proviso in the last Page of the
Bill being left out.
Signed p Order. J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.

Which Bills were severally Read here, and Passed for Ingrossing.
The Governor communicates to Mr. Speaker the following Mes-
sage, viz.^t
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
I am glad you approve of my Proposal, to send a Present to the
Cherokee Indians, who are now on our Frontier, and that you have
Impowered me to draw on one of the Treasurers for the Sum of
One Hundred Pounds, which you think sufficient for that Purpose.
As I would always Wish to give such Orders as should meet with
your Approbation, I must desire you to let me know after what
Manner you would have the Indians, that may hereafter Declare
in our Favour, and come to, or pass through, this Province, Treated,
with Regard to Provisions and other Necessaries; and as it is con-
fessedly a Point of the highest Importance to the British Interest
in general, as well as to the more immediate Security of our Frontier
Inhabitants, to cultivate the Inclination some of the Southern Indians
have now shewn for our Friendship, I should be glad if the Agents
were Impowered to pay for every Contingency of that Sort: This
Matter being, in my Opinion, of too much Consequence to be left
to the Management of any private Persons, who are not well known
to all the Branches of the Legislature.
7^th May, 1757. Hor^o. Sharpe.

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