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A Message from the Council by Mr˙ Blair:
Mr˙ SPEAKER: The Council, have agreed to the Resolve for appointing Commissioners to ratify the Treaty of Peace with the Ohio Indians, and for defraying the expense thereof.
Whereas, several Companies of the Militia of this Colony have been drawn out into actual service by command of his Excellency the Governour, for the defence and protection of the Frontiers against, the incursions and depredations of the Indians, and there are now due several large sums of Money, as well for the Pay of such Militia as for Provisions, Arms, and other necessaries furnished them; and it will be a great saving to the Colony, as well as ease to the claimants, to have such Accounts adjusted by Commissioners in the country:
Resolved, therefore, That Archibald Cary, William Cabell, William Fleming, John Winn, and John Nicholas, Gentlemen, or any three or more of them, be, and they are hereby, appointed Commissioners for the Counties
And then the House adjourned, till Thursday, the twelfth day of October next, at ten of the clock in the morning.
Commissioners Appointed to Settle the Accounts of the Militia
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of Fincastle, Botetourt, Culpepper, Pittsylvania, Halifax, and Bedford, and for that part of the County of Augusta which lies to the eastward of the Alleghany Mountains; and that Richard Lee, Francis Peyton, Josias Clapham, Henry Lee, and Thomas Blackburn, Gentlemen, or any three or more of them, be, and they are hereby, appointed Commissioners for the other Counties, and for that part of the County of Augusta which lies to the westward of the Alleghany Mountains, and for the Provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania, to examine, state, and settle, the Accounts of the Pay of the Militia, and of all Provisions, Arms, Ammunition, and other necessaries; furnished the said Militia of the Counties for which they are appointed Commissioners, and report the same to the General Assembly.