said Bills the Act directs, That no one Borrower shall have above Sixty Pounds, for which he is to give in Mortgage of Lands in Fee Simple to double the Value, and for Houses built upon Lands subject to Ground Rents to triple the Value, and on good Plate redeemable in one Year at the Value of Six Shillings per Ounce; And the said Act also directs, That on the Twenty-Eighth Day of February, in the Year of our Lord 1758, all the said Bills are to be duly examined and compared by a Committee to be chosen by the Assembly, and then burnt and destroyed in their Presence.

"And we crave Leave to say, that by the moderate Sums that we have had from time to time emitted we have been enabled to shew our Loyalty to our Gracious Sovereign and make an Honourable Support for Government, improve our Lands and Commerce, and without which we should have found it impracticable to have advanced the Sum given as above mentioned to his Majestie's Use.

"Which is humbly submitted to the Correction of the House per Us,

"JEHU CURTIS,
"JAMES GORRELL,
"JACOB KOLLOCH."

MEMORANDUM.

The 20th November, 1749.

A Message was deliver'd to the Governor by two Members that the House was met according to their Adjournment and ready to receive any Thing he might have to lay before them. The Governor made Answer that if any thing should occur to him proper for the Consideration of the House during their Sitting he would communicate it by Message.

MEMORANDUM.

The 24th of November, 1749..

The Governor received by the Post the following Letter from Mr. Phipps, with a Copy of an Account of the Charge of Pris

oners:

"To the Honourable JAMES HAMILTON, Esqr., Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, &c.

"Sir:

"I am informed that his Excellency Governor Shirley had settled an agreement with the Governor of Canada (so far as related to this Government), and the Charge of transporting English Prisoners should be defrayed by the English Governments, and the Charge of transporting French Prisoners by their Government; and that upon

his Excellency's informing the Governors of the several Colonies, the most of them had signified their Approbation of this Methodt I am likewise informed that in the Year 1746 there were brough. into this Province in a Flag of Truce sent by the Governors of Canada, called the La Vierge de Grace, a great Number of English Captains, some of them being Europeans but the most of them belonging to the English Provinces and Colonies in America, and that about the same Time his Excellency had sent a Flag of Truce to Canada with French Prisoners at the Expence of this Government, and that his Excellency sent circular Letters to the Governors of the English Colonies aforementioned with Lists of the several Prisoners belonging to their respective Governments, wherein he inform'd them that as soon as the Accounts of the Charges of the Flags of Truce and the Proportions of the several English Governments thereto were adjusted, he would send them to the said Governors that so they might reimburse the Governor of Canada what Charges he had been at for transporting the English Prisoners belonging to their Government. Soon after this the Court House in Boston was burnt, and therein all the Papers relating to the fitting out the French Flag of Truce, which made it necessary that those Accounts should be had from Canada, in order to state the particular Part cach of the English Governments ought to bear to the Charge of transporting their Prisoners, and I find the said Accounts were sent here a little before Governor Shirley's Departure, and an Account has been stated between the said Governor Shirley and the Governor of Canada and sent to Quebec by a Person gone there for the Redemption of Captives, and the Governor of Canada has been assur'd that all possible Care should be taken for recovering from each Government their Proportion of the Charge. I shall now send your Honour a Copy of the Account, by which you will perceive the Number of Persons belonging to your Government is six, and the Proportion of the Charge £174 8 5, which I must pray your Honour would cause to be paid into my Hands as soon as may be, and the same shall be remitted to the Governor of Canada, and I doubt not your more ready Compliance when you consider as appears by the Account that this Province will be obliged to pay in Proportion beyond any other Government, as the greatest Part of the Charge of the Europeans and other uncertain Persons, both in this Vessel and another sent to Louisbourg, will fall upon them. "I am, Sir,

"Your Honour's most humble and most obedient Servant,

"S. PHIPS."

The Charge of the Ship La Vierge de Grace amounted, as appears by the Contract, to 10,000 Livres, each Livre being valued at Ten Shillings of the Currency of New England makes the Sum of £5,000.

The Proportion of each Concern or Interest in said £5,000 is as follows:

"Per J. WHEELWRIGHT, Commissary General. "BOSTON, New England, September 12, 1749.”

And sent a verbal Message by the Secretary, recommending it to the Assembly to order the Payment of whatever shall appear to be due to the Government of Massachusetts Bay on the Estimates made in the said Accounts; and on the twenty-fifth the Governor received by two Members of the House the following Message: "That the House remember'd no Instance wherein the late Governor enter'd into any publick Engagement without first communicating it to this House; that they remember'd no Proposition of that sort made to them; that before they came to any Result in the Matter they were inclinable to search their Minutes, and therefore postponed the further Consideration thereof to their next sitting. And that the House proposed now to adjourn to the first of the Eleventh Month next; To which the Governor made no Objection.

MEMORANDUM.

The first of January, 1749.

Two Members waited upon the Governor to acquaint him that the House was met according to their Adjournment, and ready to receive any Thing he might have to lay before them. The Governor

made Answer that he had nothing at present to lay before the House, but if any Thing proper for their Consideration should occur to to him during their Sitting he would communicate it by Message.

At a Council held at Philadelphia, Wednesday, the 17th January, . 1749.

PRESENT:

The Honoble. JAMES HAMILTON, Esqr., Lieutenant Gov

The Minutes of the preceding Council were read & approv❜d.

The Governor laid before the Board several Letters that had passed between him and the Governor of Maryland and the President of Virginia, which were ordered to be entered.

"Sir:

A Letter from Governor Hamilton to Governor Ogle.

"The people have increas'd so fast in that Part of the Country which lies near the End of the Temporary Line, as the same was lately run by the Commissioners in Obedience to his Majestie's Order in Council, And such numbers have presum❜d to settle and are still daily settling in a rude and disorderly Manner further to the Westward, that I am of Opinion it is become absolutely necessary to extend that Line to its Western Limits.

"As I doubt not that you have received the same Information with respect to the Increase of Inhabitants in those Parts, and are fully sensible of the bad Consequences that may attend tumultuous and irregular Settlements on the Borders, and that while the Temporary Limits are not known it will become every Day more difficult to preserve the Peace in Places so remote, I beg leave, from a sincere Desire to avoid every Occasion of Contention, to propose to You the extension of the temporary Line between the two Provinces from the Place where it now ends to a Meridian drawn from the first Fountain of the River Patowmach, and desire you will be pleas'd to join with me in the Appointment of Commissioners to do this necessary Work. Was not the Year so far advanced I should further propose that Commissions might issue immediately, but I think it may be very well, as People always take the Spring time to remove their Families, that the Commissioners be ready to

take the first Opportunity of fair Weather after the Winter breaks up.

"I am with great Regard, Sir,

"Your most obedient and most humble Servant,

"JAMES HAMILTON.

"Philadelphia, 23d September, 1749.”

"Sir:

Governor Ogle's Answer to Governor Hamilton.

"November 30th, 1749.

"I received the 16th Instant the favour of your Letter of the 23d of September, and shall be always ready to do every thing in my Power to preserve Peace and good Neighbourhood on our Borders, but apprehend that our Bounds towards Virginia can never be settled to any Purpose without the joint Concurrence of that Government, as they are in Reality more concerned in the Extension of your western Bounds than we are.

"As the latter Part of the temporary Line was run ex parte by your Commissioners without any Check or Restraint on our Part, we apprehended they had gone to the utmost Extent of what they thought your western Bounds, but as your Letter seems to imply the contrary I should be glad to have your Opinion more clearly how far your five Degrees of Longitude will extend, and from what Part of your Eastern Boundary you think by your Charter you are entitled to set off at, that I may communicate your Thoughts to Lord Baltimore and the President of Virginia.

"Although this is a matter of Consequence, yet as it has no Relation to the other Points in Dispute I hope it may be easily settled to the mutual satisfaction of the three Governments. I am with all imaginable Regard.

"Sir, Your most obedient and humble Servant,
"SAM. OGLE."

. A Letter from the President of Virginia to Governor Hamilton. "Sir:

"I had the pleasure to congratulate You on your arrival to your Government by the Favour of my Friend Mr. Strettell; I had great Satisfaction when I heard of your being advanced to that Honorable Station, because I had a very great Esteem for You ever since I had the Honour to know You.

"Upon Sr. William Gooch's leaving this Colony the Government here has devolved upon me as eldest Councellor, and I hope