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Answer to the Governour' s Message

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September 29. — The Answer of the House to the Governour' s Message being transcribed according to order, was signed by the Speaker, and is as follows, viz:

May it please your Honour:

The House taking into their consideration your Message of the 26th instant, recommending the expediency of keeping up the troops employed by this Government, "or a part of them," have agreed to continue one hundred men (officers included) until the meeting of the next Assembly, and have recommended it over to that Assembly to make provision for their support and maintenance.

Signed by order of the House,
JOSEPH GALLOWAY, Speaker.

September 29, 1774.

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