400 Assembly Proceedings, April- — May 1661.

U. H.
Journal
1659-69

Tuesday the 23^th Aprill
Secretary absent Present as yesterday
The howse ajourned for halfe an houre
The howse mett againe and according to the order last night

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Called for the Acte for a Mint and ordered it to be read vpon
readeing of the said Acte it was putt to the vote of the howse
whether it should be ingrossed yea or not

M^r Bateman to be ingrossed | M^r Brooke not to be inged
M^r Clarke to be ingrossed
The Governor to be ingrossed | M^r Lloyd not to be ingrossed

Memorandum that the Dissenters to this vote dissented vpon
this Ground that they were not certaynly informed that the
County Pallantine of Durham had liberty to Coine

Ordered that it be sent to the lower howse for their Con-
currence Vppon the peticon and accompt of M^r Norwood
touching the Charges of Imprisonment It is ordered that it
be referred to the lower howse And it is further ordered that

John Gittings Clre Signs the said peticon and Accempt to be

deliuered to the lower howse their consideracon
Ordered that M^r Lloyd goe to the lower howse and desire
them to meete as a Grand Comittee in the vpper howse touch-
ing the busines of the Susquehannough Indians which is now
vrgent vpon vs.

At a Grand Comittee of both howses

It is ordered that M^r Edward Lloyd and M^r John Bateman
Coll. W^m Evans M^r Thomas Manning M^r John Brewer and M^r
George Vtye doe drawe vp an Acte impowring the Governor
and Councell in the Intervall Betweene this Assembly and the next
to rayse what forces they in their discrecon shall finde necessary
for the Assistance of the Sasquehannough Indians ag^t the
Cynaco or Naijssone Indians that have lately killed some Eng-
lish in Patapsco River that they doe rayse by equall Assess-

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ment vpon the Freemen of this Province and the Charge of
the warre and that the said Comittee doe agree and ascertayne
the wages and pay of the Souldiery in the Acte and that they
doe meete by two of the Clock in the Afternoone to drawe vp
the Acte

After the dissolucon of the Grand Comittee the howse satt
againe