134 Assembly Proceedings, Nov. 22-Dec. 23, 175^-

Liber H. S.

Session of Assembly, begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the
Second Day of October, Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-three; also
the Supplementary Act thereto, made at a Session of Assembly,
begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Twenty-third Day of
February, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-Six, be, and are

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hereby continued, and shall remain and be in full Force, for and
during the Term of Three Years, and unto the End of the next
Session of Assembly, which shall happen after the Expiration of the
said Three years.

22^d December 1758
Read and assented to
by the Lower house of
assembly
Signed p order
MMacnemara Q lo ho

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this be a Law
Hor.^o Sharpe

23^d December 1758
Read and assented to
by the upper house of
assembly
Signed p order
JRoss O Up Ho

The Great Seal
in Wax app.^t

No. 9

An Act to enable the Agents appointed by an Act, entituled, An Act
for Granting a Supply of Forty Thousand Pounds for his Maj-
esty's Service, and striking Thirty-four Thousand and Fifteen
Pounds Six Shillings thereof, in Bills of Credit, and raising a
Fund for sinking the same, to pay the several Sums of Money
for Indian Scalps to the Persons in this Act mentioned.

[Preamble.]

Whereas it appears to this General Assembly, by a Certificate
under the Hand of his Excellency General Forbes, that one Captain
Charles (Brother to Custoga, a Delaware Indian), Commanding a
Party of Warriors, in a Skirmish near Loyalbanning, was killed on
the Twelfth Day of November, in the Year of our Lord One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Fifty-eight, by Captain Evan Shelby, who
commanded a Company of Maryland Voluntiers; and that the Scalp
of the said Captain Charles was delivered to the Cherokee Indians
by his Desire, in Order, as it is apprehended by this General As-
sembly, to attach them to the British Interest. And whereas, also, it
appears from a Certificate, under the Hand of George Steuart, Esq;
one of the Provincial Magistrates, dated at Annapolis, the Tenth
Day of December, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-seven,
that Lieutenant James Riley produced to him the Scalp of an Indian
Enemy, who was killed by a Cherokee Indian, in the English Interest,
on St. George's Creek, in this Province, which was burnt by the
said George Steuart. And whereas it appears that the said Scalp was
purchased of the said Cherokee Indian, by Lieutenant-Colonel Dag-
worthy; and it is just and reasonable that the said Lieutenant-Colonel

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Dogworthy, and Captain Evan Shelby, should be paid by the said
Agents, although they may not have complied with all Requisites
necessary to impower the said Agents, by the Laws of this Province,
to pay for the said Scalps :