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" By the Upper House of Assembly, 7^th December, 1757, Read and
Referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of Assembly: "
Which Petition was here Read, and Ordered to lie on the Table.
Samuel Chamberlaine, Esq;^r from the Upper House, delivers to
Mr. Speaker the Bill, entituled, An additional supplementary Act to
the Act for raising Money for the Expedition against Canada, &c.
Indorsed, " By the Upper House of Assembly 2 Decem.^r 1757. Read
the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table " and thus " By the
Upper House of Assembly, Decem. 7,^th 1757, Read the Second Time,
and will Pass, with the following Amendments : In the first Line of
the 3d Page, after the Word Training, insert of the Militia. In the
7th Line of the 6th Page, after the Word any, put part of such. In
the gth Line of the same Page, after the Word that, insert any
part of.
Signed p Order, J. Ross, Cl Up Ho."

Which Amendments being here Read, were agreed to, and the said

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Liber No. 49
Dec. 7

Bill was indorsed, " Read, and, with the Amendments proposed,
passed for Ingrossing."
The House adjourns until 2 of the Clock Afternoon.
Post Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment &c.
Philip Hammond, Esq; and Mr. Lecompte, have Leave to go home.
His Excellency communicated to Mr. Speaker the following
Message, viz.^t
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
The inclosed Letter, will in Part shew you, what Measures have
been taken, to put it out of mine and all the King's Officers Power,
to supply the Troops at Fort Cumberland with Provisions, and to
compel the Garrison to abandon that Place, together with it's Artillery
and Stores, to his Majesty's Enemies. I perceive that a Member of
your House (not with you Approbation I hope) has been remarkably
Busy, in suggesting to the People, that they cannot be compelled to
serve his Majesty with their Waggons on this occasion; and I learn,
that every Artifice has been used to incite them to Sedition. It gives
me inexpressible concern, to find, that Matters have been already
carried to such a prodigious length; I have ever used my utmost
Endeavours to avert the Evils that more immediately threatened the
Inhabitants of that Frontier County, and am Resolved to Serve them
on all Occasions to the utmost of my Power; but this ill-advised
Step of theirs, lays me under great Difficulties, and will, in it's
Consequences, bring certain Ruin upon them, unless you will be pre-
vailed on to assist me in taking proper Measures to prevent it. His
Majesty's Fort in the Westermost Part of this Province, must not
be given up to the Enemy, tho' you may have Resolved (as Col.
Cresap tells the People) that the Maryland Forces shall be with-
drawn. If the People, whose Waggons have been Demanded by the

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