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On Motion, Leave given, to bring in a Bill for the Security of
Purchasers, and Others, claiming by or from Aliens :
Ordered, That Mr. E. Dorsey, do prepare and bring in a Bill
accordingly.
Daniel Dulany, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker, the Bill, entituled, an Act for Granting a Supply of
60,000 l. for his Majesty's Service, and the more immediate Defence
and Security of the Frontier Inhabitants of this Province, and
Emitting 49,000 l. thereof in Bills of Credit, and Raising a Fund
for sinking and replacing the Whole, by an equal Assessment on all
Estates, Real and Personal, and Lucrative Offices and Employments ;
which was Indorsed, "By the Upper House of Assembly, 16th
April, 1759. Read the first Time, and will not Pass.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho."

And the following Message,
By the Upper House of Assembly, April 16, 1759.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 16

Gentlemen,
We this Morning received from your House, the Bill, entituled,
An Act for Granting a Supply of 60,000 l. &c. and finding it, in all
it's material Parts, the same which had in four different Sessions
before been sent up to us, and as often returned with a Negative;
we this Morning, on one Reading of the Bill, sent it down you with
a Negative; but your House not being then Sitting, has occasioned
your not receiving it sooner; and we therefore hope no Neglect of
the Public Business will be imputed to us.
Gentlemen,
The Season for Action being so near, there is no Time to be lost ;
Dispatch (if any Thing is really intended to be done) is absolutely
necessary. Signed p Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.

His Excellency the Governor communicated to Mr. Speaker, the
following Message, viz.

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
The Inclosed will shew you what became due to the Director
of the Hospital last Campaign, on Account of several of the Mary-
land Soldiers, that being wounded or taken sick, were sent thither for
their Cure; I lay it before you at the Request of Mr. Russel, the

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Director, who having been paid by the Governments of Virginia and
Pennsylvania what was due to him, on Account of the Sick that were
sent to the general Hospital from the Troops which those Provinces
furnished last Year for the Expedition to the Westward, flatters
himself, as I also do, that you will in like Manner provide for his
being immediately paid what is due to him from this Province.
Hor.^o Sharpe.

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