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ments In Page 3,^d Line 18^th put, or, instead of and, Leave out the
pages 4 & 5 In the 3^d and 4^th line of 6^th Page Leave out the Hon-
ourable Samuel Chamberlaine Philip Thomas Benjamin Tasker,
jun^r Richard Lee and Benedict Calvert Esq" and a Blank space,
to be left, to be filled up with names by this House. In the 9^th line
of the same page, leave out the Word, three, and insert one; In the
13^th line of the same page instead of eight put five, & in the next
line instead of Eight put the next ensuing; In 16^th line of the same
page instead of, two, put, five then; In the 20^th line of the Same
page, instead, of, Eight, put Six: In the 7^th line of the 7^th page
instead of, three, put one; In the 16^th line of the 8^th page instead
of three, put one; and leave out the proviso in the Same page; In
the 9^th Page, line 6^th instead of, four put two
Signed p Order John Ross Clk. Up. Ho.

Sent by Stephen Bordley Esq^r
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
Oct. 1

Thursday Morning 2^d October 1760
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
His Excellency is pleased to communicate to this house the
following Message
Gentlemen of the Upper House of Assembly
The Right Honble: Lord Colvill Commander in Chief of his
Majestys Ships in the River St Lawrence having desired as you
will See by the inclosed Letters that a Number of French Prisoners
most of them Soldiers whom he has been under a Necessity of
Sending to this Province may on their Arrival be taken Care of,
I must recommend it to you to make proper Provision for the
Support of the French Prisoners that are already arrived and of
Such Others as may be expected.

Horatio Sharpe
The 2^d October 1760

S^r

Oct. 2

We have a number of French Prisoners here, which are very
inconvenient to us at this Juncture; And as I have no opportunity of
Sending them to England, I am under a Necessity of disposing of

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