Resolutions Reported from the Committee

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Ordered, That Lord Barrington do make the Report from the Committee of the Whole House, to whom it was referred to consider further of the Supply granted to his Majesty.

The Lord Barrington accordingly reported from the said Committee the Resolutions which the Committee had directed to be reported to the House; which he read in his place, and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk' s table, where the same were read, and are as followeth, viz:

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee that a number of Land forces, including one thousand five hundred and twenty-two invalids, amounting to seventeen thousand five hundred and forty-seven effective men, commissioned and non-commissioned Officers included, be employed for the year 1775.

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that a sum not exceeding six hundred and twenty-seven thousand six hundred and eighty-nine Pounds, nineteen Shillings,

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Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that a sum not exceeding three hundred and eighty-six thousand one hundred and eighty-six Pounds, and ten Pence, and one-eighth part of a Penny, be granted to his Majesty for maintaining his Majesty' s Forces and Garrisons in the Plantations and Africa, including those in Garrison at Minorca and Gibraltar, and for Provisions for the Forces in North America, Nova Scotia, New Foundland, Gibraltar, the Ceded Islands, and Africa, for the year 1775.

The said Resolutions being severally read a second time, were, upon the question severally put thereupon, agreed to by the House.