The Lower House. 261

Cr.
By Money raised by the Act for his Majesty's Ser-
vice in February 1756, and appropriated by that
and the Act in September following, to be laid out
in Rewards for Indian Scalps and Prisoners, ....

£4000 0 0

L.H.J.

Liber No, 49
Nov. 11

That the Agents aforesaid have, pursuant to the Act of Assembly,
entituled, An Act for his Majesty's Service, and the more immediate
Defence and security of the Frontier Inhabitants of this Province,
passed in September Session 1756, paid unto sundry Persons for
Provisions by them furnished to the Detachments of Militia under
the Command of Capt. Tobias Stansbury of Baltimore County, and

Joshua Beall of Prince-George's County, the Sum of £235 17 8 and
as there was no particular Sum of Money appropriated for that
Service by the aforesaid Act, it must be charged against any Surplus
Money which may remain in the Agents Hands, arising out of the
Sums appropriated by that and the Act for his Majesty's Service, &c.
passed in February Session 1756.

Your Committee beg Leave to acquaint the Honourable House,
that the foregoing Accounts are extracted from the Books kept by
the Agents, in Compliance with the Directions of the Acts of As-
sembly passed in February and September Sessions 1756, for his
Majesty's Service, and the Defence of the Western Frontier; and the
following Accounts and Observations are drawn from an Examina-
tion into the Books kept in Pursuance of an Act for his Majesty's
Service, &c. made in a Session of Assembly held at Baltimore-Town
in April 1757: In the Course of which Examination we find, that
the Sum of £10469 17 4 (or so much of that Sum which might then
have been in the Hands of the Commissioners or Trustees for Emit-
ting Bills of Credit, &c.) granted and applied by the last mentioned
Act to the Raising, Cloathing, Paying, and Subsisting 500 Men,
in the Pay of this Province, for his Majesty's Service, and the more
immediate Defence of the Western Frontiers thereof, the Agents
aforesaid have received from the Commissioners afore namd, by
Virtue of sundry Orders drawn by his Excellency the Governor for
that Purpose, the Sum of £8350 which has been expended and ap-
plied, as will appear from a View of the following Accounts, to wit.
The Public on the Act for his Majesty's Service, &c. passed in
the Baltimore Session.

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Dr.

To Sundries as follows, viz.^t
Pay of Pearis's, Ware's, Alexander and Joshua ,
Beall's Companies, to the 8th September 1757,... £2555 15 8
Ditto of Dagworthy's Company to the 8th May,
1757, ...................................

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