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Majestys service and the more immediate defence and Security of
the Frontier Inhabitants of this Province and emitting £24000
thereof in Bills of Credit and raising a Fund for Sinking and
replaceing the whole by an equal Assessment on all Estates real and
Personall and Lucrative Offices and employments thus endorsed
By the Lower House of Assembly 9^th Decem.^r 1758
Read the first Time and ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p order MMacnemara Cl Lo. Ho

By the Lower House of Assembly 16^th December 1758
Read the Second Time and will pass
Signed p order MMacnemara Cl Lo Ho

Read the first Time in this House and ordered to Lye on the Table
Read the Petition of James Johnson praying the Annexed Ac-
count may be payed him by the Publick for Sundry goods delivered
to the Indians at Annapolis in 1742 referred to the Consideration
of the Lower House and sent by Benedict Calvert Esq.^r
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
Adjourned till Monday Morning at 10 of the Clock

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
Dec. 16

Monday Morning 18^th decem.^r 1758
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present

Benjamin Tasker Esq
Benedict Calvert Esq
Col.^o Cha.^s Hammond
Daniel Dulany Esq
Col^o Benjamin Tasker

Adjourned till three of the Clock in the afternoon

Dec. 18

Eo. Die Post Meridiem
This House met again according to adjournment
Present as in the Morning

Read the Second Time the Bill ent.^d an Act for granting a Supply
of £36,000 for his Majestys Service and the more immediate De-
fence and Security of the Frontier Inhabitants of this Province
and emitting £24,000 thereof in Bills of Credit and raising a Fund

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