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apprehend it will appear, that notwithstanding the Muster Rolls are
dated the 8th Day of June and July 1757, respectively, yet in Truth
the said Company was not mustered in Presence of the Commissary
till the 19th Day of July 1757 : And that the Rolls aforesaid are not
agreeable to the Directions of the Act of Assembly, which requires
that the several Companies of Soldiers in the Pay of this Province,
"shall be mustered monthly while they remain in this Province."
Your Committee further observe, that from the Face of the said
Muster Rolls it does not appear that any Part of the said Company
went on Detachment, on Party, or Ranging, to the 19th July afore-
said, except one private Man said to be on Party June 14th, 1757.

Your Committee find, that the Muster Rolls of Capt. Alexander
and Joshua Beall's, Pearis's and Ware's Companies, are returned
with the proper Certificates, endorsed agreeable to an Act of As-
sembly made at Baltimore Session, entituled, An Act for his Majesty's
Service, and the more immediate Defence of the Frontier Inhabitants
of this Province. And from an Examination into the said Rolls, the
following Scheme is drawn, shewing the State and Destination of
each particular Company, and of the Four Companies in general,
monthly, to the 8th Day of September last.

L.H.J.
Liber No. 49
Nov. 11

But your Committee have not been able, from any Papers which
have been laid before them by the Agents, to form any Judgment of
what Service the Parties and Detachments, mentioned in the Muster
Rolls to be made from the several Companies beforementioned, have
been employed in.

Your Committee also Report, that there have been laid before them
sundry Receipts, amounting to £70 Bounty-Money paid the following
Persons, who do not appear on any Muster Rolls laid before us.

May 25th, 1757. John Carrill, ............ £500
30. Joseph Jones, ........... 500
July 14. George Laws, ........... 500
23. John Day, .............. 500
Aug. 15. John White, ............ 500
16. Samuel Powell, .......... 500
William Brown, ......... 500
4. William Lay, ............ 500

Thomas Pudworth, ..... 5 0 0

23. Charles Dorsey, ......... 500
Sept. 4. William Jennings, ........ 5 0 0
2. John Cole, .............. 5 0 0
15. James M'Neil, ........... 5 0 0
Robert Chilton, .......... 5 0 0

£ 70 o o

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