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And thus, " By the Upper House of Assembly, I2th April, 1758.
Read the second Time, and will not Pass.
Signed p Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho."

On Motion, Ordered, That a Message be prepared, to be sent to
the Upper House with the Bill, entituled, An Act for Granting a
Supply of £45,000 &c. to request their Honours to point out what
Objections they have to the Passage of the said Supply-Bill into a
Law; and that Colonel Tilghman, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Dorsey, Mr.
Hammond, Mr. Matthew Tilghman, Mr. Carroll, and Mr. Murdock,
do prepare and bring in the same.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock.
Post-Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
The following Message :
By the Lower House of Assembly, April 12, 1758.
May it please your Honours,
We are greatly concerned to find, that after Refusing Two Bills
sent up to you at our Two last Meetings, for his Majesty's Service,

L. H. J.
Liber No. 50
April 12

without mentioning the Objections you might have to either of them,
your Honours have returned a Third for the same Purposes, in the
same Manner. If your Objections had been made to either of those,
or the present Bill, we should have shewed the utmost Readiness to
do every Thing we could, consistent with our Rights and Privileges,
to have brought about the Passage of them; and if any Inconsisten-
cies, Contradictions or Mistakes, in any of those Bills had been
pointed out to us, you had sufficient Reason, from what has been
frequently done, to be satisfied we should readily have found Means
to have rectified them. As we have it warmly at Heart, to promote,
to the utmost of our Abilities, his Majesty's Service at this most
critical Juncture, and to provide for the Security and Quiet of our
Frontier Inhabitants, we have again herewith sent up the Bill you
this Morning returned us, with the Correction of a Mistake, which
we find was by wrong filling up one of the Blanks, and the Supply
of an Omission in not filling up another, and hope for your Honours
Concurrence to it as it now stands, or that you will, notwithstanding
it may not be strictly consistent with Parliamentary Modes of Pro-
ceeding, point out to us all such Objections as you may have against
it, and thereby afford us an Opportunity of shewing how desirous
we are of bringing about the Passage of this Bill, at this Time of so
much Importance to our King and Country.
Signed p Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.

Was sent to the Upper House, with the Bill, entituled, An Act
for Granting a Supply of £45,000 for his Majesty's Service, and
the more immediate Defence and Security of the Frontier Inhabi-
tants of this Province, and Emitting £35,000 thereof in Bills of

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