278 Assembly Proceedings, March 22- April 11, 1760.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8

before nominated and appointed, having first given Bond and
Qualified as before directed; which Bond shall be proved, recorded,
transmitted and kept as aforesaid; and an attested Copy thereof as
aforesaid, shall be Evidence as aforesaid.
XXXVIII. And be it further Enacted, That the said Agents
shall, and they are hereby directed and required to keep fair, distinct
and regular Accounts of all such Sums of Money as they shall
receive in Virtue of this Act, and how the same have been paid,
applied and expended; and the same shall deliver in compleat and
upon Oath, on or before the Third Day of every Session, to the
General Assembly of this Province. And the said Agents, for their
Trouble in executing and performing their Duty by this Act required,
shall and may retain in their Hands a Commission of One Pound
Five Shillings per Cent, and no more, on all such Sums of Money
as they shall receive, apply and expend, as aforesaid.

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XXXIX. And whereas it is just and reasonable, that the several
Persons who have been burthened with the Expense of Quartering
those of his Majesty's Troops that have been ordered into this
Province for Winter-Quarters, should be speedily paid their reason-
able Claims :
XL. Be it therefore Enacted, That a Sum not exceeding Three
Thousand Pounds, out of the Sum of Sixty Thousand Pounds,
granted as aforesaid, be applied to the discharging the reasonable
Claims of such Persons as have been burthened with the Expence
of Quartering as aforesaid, which shall be laid before and allowed
by the Lower House of Assembly of this Province.
XLI. And whereas many of the Inhabitants of this Province
have marched from several of the Counties of this Province to the
Frontiers thereof, since the March of General Braddock from
Frederick-Town in Frederick County, for the Protection of the
Frontier Inhabitants, and Garrisoning his Majesty's Forts in this
Province; And whereas also several of the Inhabitants of this
Province have been put to great Expences in supplying and con-
veying Provisions and other Necessaries for the Use of the said
Men; And it is thought proper, at this Time, that those Persons
who have marched to the Frontiers, for the Purposes aforesaid,
should be paid for their Services, and that those who have been
put to Expences in supplying and carrying Provisions, and other
Necessaries, for the Use of the said Men, should be paid and satisfied
for the same :

XLII. Be it therefore Enacted, That a Sum not exceeding Six
Thousand Pounds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of
the Sum of Sixty Thousand Pounds, granted as aforesaid, be ap-
plied to the discharging the reasonable Claims of such Persons as
have marched to the Frontiers for the Purposes aforesaid, or been
put to Expences in supplying and carrying Provisions, or other