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third Day of September 1704, all Amerciaments in the Provincial
Court are to be employed as the Governor and Council think fit ; but,
it not appearing to this House, how the same have been employed,
or that they have been accounted for since the passing that Act,
humbly pray your Excellency will order an Account of them to
be laid before us this Session.

Signed per Order, Thomas Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.

Sent up to his Excellency the Governor by Capt. Dent, and M.^r
Harrison: They return and say they delivered the same.

Col. William Whittington from the Honourable Council, delivers
to M.^r Speaker, the following Message Viz.^t

By his Excellency the Governor and Council in Assembly,

Mays. 1715.

Gentlemen,

On Receipt of your Message, by Capt. Dent, and M.^r Harrison,
his Excellency has been pleased to enquire how the Provincial
Amerciaments have been disposed of, and was informed by the
Clerk of this Board, that, by an Order in Council, made in his
Excellency Governor Nicholson's Time, the said Provincial Amercia-
ments were settled on the then Clerk of the Council, M.^r Henry
Denton, the better to enable him to keep a Clerk, and, afterwards,
upon the present Clerk's coming into the Office, he had Execution
granted to him, at two several Times for them, once in his Ex-
cellency, Col. Blakiston's Time, and once during Col. Seymour's
Government, by Virtue whereof he has received a small Quantity
of Tobacco, scarce worth his Trouble and Charge in making them
out to the several Counties, and will be ready to render an Account
of what he has received thereof
Signed p Order, W. Bladen, Cl. Council.

With which the House is satisfied.

The following Address being prepared, is ordered to be entered,
Viz.^t
By the House of Delegates, May 13, 1715

Upon Perusal of 26.^th Article of her late Majesty's Instructions
concerning the Twelve Pence per Hogshead, given for the Use and
Support of the Government of this Province, to be applied by your
Excellency in the Manner as in the said Article is directed; and,
on Perusal of the Accounts of John Rousby, Esq one of the Officers
that collected 3.^d per Hogshead, Part of the said 12.^d applied for
purchasing Arms and Ammunition, for the Province, in Patuxent
District; it appears, that for many Years by past, that Part of the
said Impost, applied for Arms, has been very much impaired, and
the Ends for which it was designed, in a great Measure frustrated,
by Reason of the extravagant Salary of a hundred Pounds Sterling
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Nov. 15