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His Excellency the Governor communicated to M^r Speaker the
following Message (Vizt)
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly
As I think it the Duty of every Person who by himself or his
Friends applies for an Office to account for and pay as soon as
possible the money he is thereby Authorized and Obliged to Collect
for the Publick, I have Often given Orders for the prosecution of
Defaulters & not long ago directed the Clerk of the Council to
Signify to all Such Officers as were then in Arrear to the paper
Currency Office that no Indulgence would be given then beyond the
time when they Ought to Account, and you may depend that Com-
pulsory methods shall be used with such as have not paid due regard
to the Intimation given them, as it was found upon former prose-
cutions against Several of the Publick Debtors reported by the Com-
mittee whose Commissions were expired before my Arrival in the
Province that they either did not owe the money they are respectively
charged with or that it could not by any means be recovered it would
be better I think to leave the names of those out of any future Report
& let an Entry be made in the Office Books accordingly.
Hor.^o Sharpe, the 26^th Nov.^r 1763

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Nov. 26

On Motion of Col.^o Tilghman leave given to bring in an Address
to the Governor in answer to his Message of the 19. ^th of Nov.^r
Instant recommending that provision be made for the protection of
the ffrontiers.

Ordered that Col.^o Tilghman M^r Rnggold M^r Murdock M^r Johnson
and M^r Dulany do prepare and bring in the Same.
The following Message (Vizt)
By the Lower House of Assembly Nov^r 26. 1763
May it please your Honours.
We cannot help expressing our real Concern and disappointment
at your sending down the Bill making provision for the Defence and
Security of the ffrontier Inhabitants against the Incursions of the
Indians and for the better regulation of Ordinarys and Ordinary
keepers within this Province with a Negative and the more as you
not only make no Objections to the Military part of the bill but
Tacitly approve the Regulation the men were put under and agree
with us that number is adequate to the Service, by your proposal that
different Monies Should be applied to the purposes intended by that
bill.
As you have not explicitly pointed out the part of the Bill which
occasioned your Negative, we cannot ascertain it but by deduction,
and when we reflect on the State of the Funds Established by the
fforty Thousand Pound Act of which you are doutbless well apprized
by the Report of the Committee of both Houses Signed by One of
your Members and find that there is already in the Iron Chest very

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