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fixed, and the land office wants more Desks in order to
receive the several records that are to be Joyned to the said
office, and further for the Safe keeping the Records the
severall windows of the said State House ought to be well
mended they being now much broken as well the Shutters as
the Glasses and further Wee find a Leak on the North side
of the said house in the Roofe, Just at the Stair head, and the
Severall offices aforsaid or most of them want good Locks
and Keys all which wee referr to the Consideration of the
house.
Signed p order John Beale Cl: Comrs
Which being read it is ordered that the Comrs appointed by
the Act for repairing the Records see the said offices repaired
accordingly.
The house proceeded to consider of John Rousby Esqr's
account of the 3d p hhd for arms and amunition And there-
upon the following Message being prepared was ordered to
be entred (Viz.)
By the Lower house of Assembly
Aug 7th 1716
May It please yr Exncy
John Rousby Esqr pursuant to your Exncys Directions has
laid before this house his account of the 3d p hhd appropriated
by Her late Maty for the purchass of Arms &c: for the defence
of this Province which 3d from the 19th day of November in
the year 1707 to the 28 day of October 1715 amounts in the
whole to 1909: 5: 9: sterl: out of which wee find the said John
Rousby Contrary to the tenour of the Receivers Comission
granted to George Plater Esqr by King William and Queen
Mary and the End for which the said 3d was designed deducts
the full Receiver's Sallary of 100ll Sterl p annum
Wee beg leave to referr your Exncy to the Entry of the
said Comission granted to the said George Plater made in the
Secretarys office and to the Resolution of the House of Dele-
gates on the 9th November 1709 and on the 13 of May 1715
and of your Exncy and the Honble Councill of the 14th of the
same moneth and to the 26th article of her late Matys Instruc-
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