ining troops, according as the vigour and activity of those
respective provinces should be thought by his majesty to merit, they
advanced the sum of two hundred thousand pounds. The East India company
they gratified with twenty thousand pounds, towards enabling them to
defray the expense of a military force in their settlements, in lieu of
a battalion of the king's troops now returned to Ireland. Twenty-five
thousand pounds were provided for the payment of the out-pensioners of
Chelsea hospital. For subsequent augmentation of the British forces,
since the first estimate of guards and garrisons for the ensuing year
was presented, they allowed one hundred thirty-four thousand one hundred
and thirty-nine pounds, seventeen shillings and fourpence. They further
voted, upon account, towards enabling the governors and guardians of
the Foundling hospital to maintain, educate, and bind apprentice the
children admitted into the said charity, the sum of forty-seven thousand
two hundred and eighty-five pounds. For defraying the expense of
maintaining the militia in South and North Britain, to the twenty-fourth
day of December of the ensuing year, they voted an additional grant of
two hundred ninety thousand eight hundred and twenty-six pounds,
sixteen shillings and eightpence: and, moreover, they granted four-score
thousand pounds, upon account, towards defraying the charge of pay
and clothing of the unembodied militia for the year ending on the
twenty-fifth day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and
sixty-one. For reimbursing the colony of New-York, their expenses in
furnishing provisions and stores to the troops raised by them for
his majesty's service, in the-campaign of the year one thousand seven
hundred and fifty-six, they allowed two thousand nine hundred
and seventy-seven pounds, seven shillings and eightpence; and for
maintaining the British forts and settlements on the coast of Africa,
they renewed the grant of ten thousand pounds. For the maintenance and
augmentation of the troops of Brunswick in the pay of Great Britain
for the ensuing year, pursuant to an ulterior convention concluded and
signed at Paderborn on the fifth day of March, in the year one thousand
seven hundred and sixty, they granted the sum of ninety thousand seven
hundred and sixty-nine pounds, eight shillings and elevenpence farthing;
and for the troops of Hesse-Cassel in the same pay, during the same
period, they allotted one hundred and on