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On Resolution of the aforegoing Question, Ordered, That Pro-
posals for Amendments to the said Bill be drawn up, and that Col.
Tilghman, Mr. Hammond, Mr. E. Dorsey, and Mr. Matthew Tilgh-
man, do prepare and bring in the same.
The Bill, entituled, An Act for making Valid the Proceedings of
the Session of Assembly lately held at Baltimore Town, was sent to
the Upper House by Mr. Edmondson and Mr. Thomas Gantt.
The House adjourns until 2 of the Clock Afternoon.
Post Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Mr. J. Hammond Dorsey appeared in the House.

His Excellency the Governor communicated to Mr. Speaker the
following Message, viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
In Answer to your Message of Yesterday, wherein you are pleased
to say, that you looked upon the Cultivating the Friendship of the
Southern Tribes of Indians, engaging their Assistance against his
Majesty's Enemies, and Establishing them in the British Interest,
as a Matter of very great Importance, both to the Common Cause,
and the immediate Security of our Frontier Inhabitants, and that
you therefore did, in a Bill for his Majesty's Service and our own
Security, some Time since offered to the Upper House, direct, that
the Sum of £2000 should be laid out by the Agents by that Bill

L. H. J.
Liber No. 49
Dec. 6

nominated, in such Goods as might be thought most acceptable to
those Indians, I must take the Liberty to remind you, that by an Act
of Assembly, which was made at a Session held here in February
1756, entituled, An Act for Granting a Supply of £40000 for his
Majesty's Service, the Sum of £3000 was appropriated towards en-
gaging the Assistance, and cultivating the Friendship of the Southern
Tribes of Indians, and the Defraying the Expences of the Two
Commissioners to be sent from this Province to Treat with the same,
in Conjunction with Commissioners from Pennsylvania, Virginia,
and North-Carolina, or any of them; and the Sum of £1000 was
by the same Act appropriated towards Paying and Satisfying any
of the Inhabitants of this Province, or any of our Indian Allies, for
the Scalp of every Indian-Enemy, or any Indian Prisoner by them
taken or brought in after the Rate of Ten Pounds for each Scalp or
Indian Prisoner: That by an Act passed in September 1756, the
further Sum of £3000 out of the said £40000 was appropriated
towards Paying for Indian Scalps or Prisoners, after the Rate of
Fifty Pounds for every Scalp of an Indian Enemy, and for every
Live Indian Enemy, which any Inhabitant of this Province (not
being in the Pay of this Province as a Soldier) or Indian in Friend-
ship and Alliance with his Majesty's Subjects, shall produce to any
Magistrate of this Province; and that by an Act of Assembly passed
in April last, that fart of the Act made in February 1756, which

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