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The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock.
Post-Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment.
Mr. Ward, Mr. Worthington, and Col. Richard Lloyd, have
Leave of Absence.
Ordered, That Mr. Worthington, Mr. Wilmer, and Mr. Wright,
be added to the Committee to report to the House the State of the
Serjeant's Fees.
An Ingrossed Bill, entituled, An Act to erect a Market at the
Market-House in Kent County, &c. was sent to the Upper House,
with the Paper Bill, by Mr. J. Goldsborough and Mr. J. Hall.
John Ridout, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr. Speaker,
a Bill, entituled, An Act to prevent any future Loan of the Bills of
Credit in the Paper Currency Office, &c. thus Indorsed, By the
Upper House of Assembly, 23d April, 1762. Read the first and
second Time, by especial Order, and will Pass, with the following
Amendments: Leave out from the Word Officer, in the 17th line,
to the Words and the, in the 20th Line, and insert the following:
When he accounts for, and pays into the Office aforesaid, the Money
by him received in Virtue of the above recited Acts, shall, at the
Foot, or on the Back of his Account, produce over and above the
usual Probate, a Probate under the Hand of some Provincial or
County Justice to this Effect, viz. That the Paper Money for which
he has debited himself in his said Account, is the Amount of all
the Paper Money which he received from the People by Virtue of
the said Acts, during the Time for which he accounts.
Which was Read, with the Amendments, to which the House
agrees, and the said Bill was ordered to be Ingrossed.
His Excellency communicated to Mr. Speaker, the following
Message :
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
Since I find by the Address you presented to me last Saturday,
that there are some among you who seem determined to misconstrue
whatever I can say or do, it will give me no Concern to know, that
my Conduct does not meet with the Approbation of those Men; but
that such of you as have not shut your Eyes against Truth, may be
more fully informed of the Disingenuity of those Gentlemen, and
their unreasonable Attempts, on more Occasions than one, I must
beg your Patience while I trouble you with a Narrative of some of
their former Proceedings.
The Earl of Loudoun, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's
Forces on this Continent, having in March 1757, signified to the
Governors of the neighbouring Colonies, and Myself, that agreeable
to a Plan which his Majesty had approved of, the greatest Part of
the King's Regular Troops in America, were to be employed the
ensuing Campaign to the Northward; and that for the Defence
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
April 23
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