Resolved that it is the opinion of this Committee that there be forthwith raised and Subsisted by this Colony four hundred effective Men Officers included to Reinforce and Strengthen the Army

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destined to Crown Point And the said Resolution being read a second lime

Resolved that the House do agree with the Committee in the aforesaid Resolution.

Ordered that M^. Watts and M^". Walton wait on his Honour the Lieutenant Governor with the aforesaid Resolution. By order of the General Assembly

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RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL COURT OF MASS.

At a Great and General Court, or Assembly, for His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England, begun and held at Boston upon Wednesday the 28^^, (j^y of May 1755 and continued by Prorogation unto Wednesday the 6^^. of August following, and then Met.

Province of the Massachusetts Bay

The Committee appointed to take under Consideration, His Honour the Lieut Governour's Speech, to the two Houses, are humbly of opinion, that there be forthwith raised, in the pay of this Government, Three hundred Men, in addition to the Five hundred Men, ordered to be raised last Session, and sent as soon as possible to join & Strengthen the Forces now gone to Crown Point, all which is humbly submitted in the name and by order of the Committee ; and the Committee ask leave to sit again and to report further

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