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2. For defraying the charge of an augmentation of four fquadrons of hunters and huffars, the troops of the landgrave of Heffe-Caffel, in the pay of Great Britain, from Dec. 25, 1759, to Dec. 24, 1760, both days inclufive,

3. For defraying the charge of an augmentation of five battalions to the king's army in Germany, each battalion confifting of one troop of 101 men, and four companies of foot, of 125 men in each company, with a corps of artillery, for 366 days, from Dec. 25, 1759, to Dec. 24, 1760, both days inclufive,

FEBRUARY 12.

1. Upon account of the reduced officers of his majefty's land-forces and marines, for 1760,

2. For defraying the charge for allowances of the feveral officers and private gentlemen of the two troops of horfe-guards, and regiment of horfe, reduced, and to the fuperannuated gentlemen of the four troops of horse-guards, for 1760,

3. Upon account, for fupporting and maintaining the fettlement of his majesty's colony in Nova Scotia, for 1760,

4. Upon account, for defraying the charges incurred, by fupporting and maintaining the faid fettlement, in 1758, and not provided for by parlia

ment,

5. Upon account, for defraying the charges of the civil establishment of his majefty's colony of Georgia, and other incidental expences attending the fame, from June 24, 1759, to June 24, 1760,

MARCH 31.

1. Upon account, to enable his majesty to give a proper compenfation to the respective provinces in North-America for the expences incurred by them in the levying, cloathing, and pay, of the troops raifed by the fame, according as the active vigour and ftrenuous efforts of the refpective provinces fhall be thought by his majesty to merit,

2. Upon account, to be paid to the Eaft-India company, towards enabling them to defray the expence of a military force, in their fettlements, to be maintained by them, in lieu of the battalion of his majesty's 's forces commanded by colonel Adlercron,

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withdrawn from thence, and now returned to Ireland,

3. Upon account, for out-penfioners of Chelseahofpital, for 1760,

4. For defraying the charge of feveral augmentations to his majefty's forces, fince the estimate of guards and garrifons for the year 1760 was presented, from their respective commencements, to the 24th of December, 1760,

5. Upon account, towards enabling the governors and guardians of the Foundling-hospital, to maintain, educate, and bind apprentice, fuch children as were admitted into the faid hofpital, on or before the 8th of February, 1760; and that the fame be iffued and paid, for the ufe of the faid hofpital, without fee or reward, or any deduction whatfoever,

APRIL 28.

1. For defraying the charge of the embodied militia of the feveral counties in South-Britain from the respective times that they were embodied, and of the fenfible men of Argylefhire, and lord Sutherland's battalion of Highlanders, in North-Britain, from the commencement of their establishment, to the 24th of December, 1760,

2. Upon account, for defraying the charge of cloathing the embodied militia, for 1760,

3. For reimburfing, to the colony of New-York, their expences in furnishing provifions and ftores to the troops raised by them for his majesty's fervice, for the campaign in 1756,

4. To be employed in maintaining and fupporting the British forts and fettlements upon the coast of Africa,

5. Upon account, towards enabling the governors and guardians of the Foundling-hofpital to maintain and educate fuch children as were admitted into the faid hofpital between the 8th of February and the 26th of March, 1760; nnd that the fame be iffued and paid, for the use of the faid hofpital, without fee or reward, or any deduction whatsoever,

APRIL 29.

1. For defraying the charge of 959 cavalry, and 1454 infantry, the troops of the reigning duke of Brunswick,

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Brunswick, in the pay of Great Britain, pursuant to treaty,

2. For defraying the charge of an augmentation, to the troops of the reigning duke of Brunswick, in the pay of Great Britain, puriuant to an ulterior convention, concluded and figned at Paderborn, the 5th of March, 1760,

3. For defraying the charge of two additional fquadrons of huffars, and two companies of chaffeurs, together with an augmentation of the horse, dragoons, and foot, the troops of the landgrave of Heffe-Caffel, in the pay of Great Britain, for 1760,

4. For defraying the extraordinary expences of his majefty's land-forces, and other fervices, incurred from the 24th of November, 1759, to the 24th of December following, aud not provided for,

MAY 6.

1. To make good the deficiency of the grants for the fervice of 1759,

2. To make good the like fum iffued, pursuant to an addrefs of this houfe, by his majefty, to Jane Hardinge, widow, as adminiftratrix of Nicholas Hardinge, Efq, deceased, as a recompence for his pains and fervice, in preparing copies of the journals of this houfe for the prefs, and in managing and directing the printing of the fame, for the use of the members of this house,

3. To make good the like fum, iffued, purfuant to an addrefs of this houfe, by his majefty, to Jeremiah Dyfon, Efq; towards defraying the expence of printing the journals of this houfe, from the beginning of the 9th parliament of Great Britain, to the end of the 4th feffion of this present parliament, and of making and printing indexes to the zd, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th volumes of the journals of this house,

4. Upon account, towards defraying the charge of pay and cloathing for the unembodied militia, for the year ending the 24th of March, 1761,

5. To enable the principal, officers of his majesty's ordnance to pay intereft, after the rate of 4 1. per cent. per annum, from the 25th of Auguft, 1759, to the 25th of April laft, for the fum of 23800l. 11 s. 11 d. remaining in his majefty's office of ordnance, upon the faid 25th of April, and not paid into the hands of the king's remembrancer of the court of Exchequer, at

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Westminster, as directed by an act, made in the last feffion of parliament, for making compenfation for lands and hereditaments, purchased for his majesty's fervice, at Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, by reafon of doubts and difficulties, which have arisen, touching the execution of the faid act,

ΜΑΥ 10.

1. Upon account, to enable his majesty to defray any extraordinary expences of the war, incurred, or to be incurred, for the fervice of 1760; and to take all fuch measures, as may be neceffary, to disappoint, or defeat, any enterprizes or defigns of his enemies, and as the exigency of affairs may require,

2. For defraying the charge of a regiment of light dragoons, and of an additional company to lieutenant colonel Vaughan's eorps, for 1760,

MAY 13.

1. For defraying the extraordinary charge of his majesty's mint, in the Tower of London, in 1759, 2. Upon account, for paying and discharging fo much of the debts, with the neceffary expences attending the payment of the fame, claimed and fuftained upon the lands and estate which became forfeited to the crown by the attainder of the late titular lord John Drummond, brother to the late titular duke of Perth, as shall be remaining unsatisfied, and not already provided for,

Sum total granted by this feffion,

Nov. 22. As foon as the house had agreed to the refolutions of the fupply committee, it was refolved, that the house would next morning refolve itself into a committee of the whole house, toj confider of ways and means for raising the supply

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granted to his majefty: which committee was continued to the 14th of May, 1760; and in that time it came to the following refolutions, which were agreed to by the house on the days as follow, viz.

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1. Refolved, That the fum of eight millions be raised, by tranfferrable annuities, after the rate of 41. per centum, per annum ; and that an additional capital of 3 1. be added to every 100l. advanced; which additional capital fhall confist of a lottery ticket, of the value of 3 1. to be attended with like transferrable annuities, after the rate of 41. per centum, per annum, to commence from the 5th day of January, 1761, for 20 years, and then to stand reduced to 1. per cent. per ann. and that the faid fum of eight millions do bear an intereft after the rate of 4 1. per centum, per annum, to commence from the 5th day of January, 1760, for 21 years from thence forward, and then to stand reduced to 31. per centum, per annum; the faid feveral annuities to be transferrable at the bank of England, and to be redeemable by parliament, in the whole or in part, by fums not lefs than 500000 l. at one time, after the expiration of 21 years, to be reckoned from the 5th day of January, 1760, and not fooner, fix

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months notice having been given of fuch payment or payments refpectively; that every subscriber fhall, on or before the 15th day of January next, make a depofit of 151. per centum, on fuch fum as he fhall choose to subscribe towards raifing the faid fum of eight millions, with the cashiers of the bank of England, as a fecurity for his making the future payments, on or before the times herein limited, that is to say, Ten per cent. on or before the 26th day of February next ;-ten per cent. on or before the 25th day of March next; ten per cent. on or before the 29th day of April next ; pec cent. on or before the 31ft of May next; ten per cent. on or before the 3d day of July next;fifteen per cent. on or before the 14th day of Auguft next;— ten per cent. on or before the 16th day of September next; ten per cent. on or before the 29th day of October next: which feveral fums, fo received, fhall, by the faid cashiers, be paid into the receipt of his majefty's Exchequer, to be applied, from time to time, to fuch fervices as fhall then have been voted by this house. in this feffion of parliament, and not otherwife; and that fuch of the proprietors of tallies and orders, made out at the Exchequer, by virtue of an act of the last feffion of parliament, for enabling his majefty to raise the fum of one million, for the ufes and purposes therein mentioned, as fhall be defirous of fubfcribing a fum equal to the principal fum contained in fuch relpective orders, and fhall, on or before the 8th of January next, produce the faid orders, and fignify fuch their defire to the faid cashiers, fhall be admitted fubfcribers for fuch

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