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Resolved, That the Sum of 12 l. Bounty-Money be paid to each
able-bodied Man that shall be enlisted by any Officer, and shall pass
muster, and serve under the Command of his Excellency General
Amherst, or other Person duly authorized, and 20 s. be paid to each
Officer who shall enlist such able-bodied Man.
Resolved, That this House will, out of the first Supplies that shall
be granted for his Majesty's Service, appropriate a Sum sufficient
to repay the Money advanced in the Year 1758 by General Forbes, for
the Pay, Victualling and Cloathing of the Troops, formerly in the
Pay of this Province, from the Time the Money granted for the Pay,
Subsistence and Cloathing of the said Men, was expended, till the said
Troops were taken into his Majesty's Service in the Year 1758 by
General Forbes, so far as the same shall appear to this House to be
just and reasonable.
And it is further Resolved, That if it shall appear that General
Forbes has not paid all the Money that may be due for the Pay,
Victualling and Cloathing of the said Men, from the Time the
Money granted for that Purpose was expended, till the Time they
were taken into his Majesty's Service, that then this House will make
a Provision for what further Sum may be due for the Pay, Victual-
ling and Cloathing of the said Men.
Resolved, That this House will, out of the first Supplies that shall
be granted for his Majesty's Service, appropriate a Sum sufficient
to pay the Money advanced in 1758 by General Forbes, for the Pay
and Cloathing of the Troops formerly in the Pay of this Province,
and by him taken into his Majesty's Service, from the Time those
Troops entered into the said Service, to the End of the Campaign
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Liber No. 51
March 26
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in 1758, so far as the same shall appear to this House to be just
and reasonable.
Resolved, That this House will make Provision for paying such
of the Inhabitants of this Province as have, in Consequence of the
Governor's Request, marched from any of the Counties of this
Province, for the Defence of the Frontiers of this Province, since
the March of General Braddock from Frederick-Town in Frederick
County, or have Garrisoned the Forts of this Province since the
Forces that have been raised by this Province, were taken by General
Forbes from the said Forts into his Majesty's Service. And also
that this House will make Provision for paying such Persons as have
supplied Provisions and other Necessaries for the Use of the said
Men, who have marched as aforesaid, or Garrisoned the said Forts,
and for the Expence of the Carriage of such Provisions and other
Necessaries.
Resolved, That such Provision be, by the Appropriation of a Sum
sufficient for the said Purposes, out of the first Supplies which shall
be granted for his Majesty's Service.
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