392 Assembly Proceedings, October 4-November 26, 1763.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Nov. 23

counts to the Visitors of the Several County Schools was Read the
Second time and will pass and was Sent to the Upper House by M^r
Magruder and M^r Beattys.

M^r Key brings in and delivers to M^r Speaker a bill Ent.^d An Act to
Confirm a Lease made by Thomas Harrison of Baltimore County
for part of a Lot of Land therein mentioned lying in Baltimore
Town in said County to the Commissioners of the Said Town and
their Successors and to establish a Market in the said Town and for
the Regulation of said Market which was read the first time and
Ordered to lye on the Table.

Daniel Dulany Esq^r from the Upper house delivers to M^r Speaker
the following Message (Viz^t)

By the Upper House of Assembly 23^d Nov^r 1763
Gentlemen

We have returned with our Negative the Bill entituled An Act
for the Speedy payment of such persons as have been Ordered to
March to the Western Frontiers of this Province, for the Defence
thereof, and of the Expences of Carriages and provisions for such
Persons, and of such as have been put to the Expences of quartering
his Majestys Regular Forces within this Province and other necessary

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Expences during the late War, not because the Demands proposed
by the Bill to be discharged, ought not to be Satisfied, but because
they are upon the same footing with those of other Creditors, and
should therefore be paid in the same manner.

By the Act intituled An Act for Ordering and regulating the
Militia of this Province for the better defence and Security thereof,
the Militia are to be paid in the Publick Levy, and we should not
have the least Objection to their being satisfied in this manner, for
we think, that their Obedience to the Orders issued by the Governor,
in Consequence of the Authority with which he is invested by an
Express Law, was precedent, and Commendable; but as other Publick
Creditors are equally intitled to Satisfaction, and in the same manner
we cannot concur in a measure Distinguishing their Cases

The Publick debt is now Swelled to a great Amount, and if you
are of Opinion that the Discharge of the whole at this time would
fall too heavy we Should very willingly Embrace any expedient,
conducive to the Ease of the Debtors, and therefore, if it is agreeable
to you, We shall Consent that the Militia, and the Other Persons
Mentioned in the Bill We now return, and all other Creditors be at
this time paid, except the Members of the Upper & Lower Houses of
Assembly for their respective allowances, the payment of which may
be deferred to a Season more convenient to the good People of this
Province.
Signed p Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.