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Gentlemen, I have formerly made known to you that the
Legislature of Great Brittain does not take upon them, among
their Parliamentary Proceedings to decide Matters of Meum
and Tuum., The peoples properties are ruled by the known
Laws of the Land; however Extraordinary their Cases may
be; Unless for the Joint Relief and upon the United Applica-
tion of all parties Concerned And I am Advised and think it
Absolutely necessary that Yours should be Preserved to you
Agreeable thereto I have therefore Dissented to the Act

L. H. J.

Intituled An Act to Invest an Estate in fee to John Clements
in Queen Ann's County in a Certain Lott in the Town of
Cambridge in Dorchester County and to the Act Intituled An
Act for the Relief of Benjamin Howard in Making Good the
Survey of Howard's Purchase. And also to the Act Intituled
an Act Empowering certain Commissioners to Dispose of the
Remaining Part of the Personal Estates which were of
Thomas Smithson late of Dorchester County Gent: and
Thomas Smithson late of Talbot County Esq^r Deced to Settle
& assess the Losses Damages and Costs by Thomas Hicks
Gent and John Davis son and Heir at Law of Jeremiah Davis
Sustained, as also to Value the Lands whereof the said
Thomas Smithson of Talbot County died Seized, & to dispose
of so much of the said Personal Estates and the Lands as will
Satisfie the said Thomas Hicks and the said John Davis for
their Damages Losses and Costs Sustained by Means of a
Warranty of Lands from the said Thomas Smithson of
Dorchester County and the said Thomas Smithson of Talbot
County to the said Thomas Hicks and Jeremiah Davis. And
likewise to the Act Intituled an Act to Supply certain. Defects
in the Conveying Lands from Henry Gibbs Son and Heir of
Edward Gibbs some time of Somerset County in the Prov-
ince of Maryland Deced to Benjamin Lawrence John Belt
and Lucy his wife Heirs of Benjamin Lawrence some time of
Calvert County in the same Province Deced. And; doe
hereby Declare the said Acts Null Void and of No Effect;
Trusting that Under my Government the Province will Con-
tinue (as it has from its Infancy) to flourish by An Unbiased
Administration of the Law in the Established Courts of
Justice.

It would have been much more Acceptable if the Regard
you Acknowledge your Selves willing to have to Our Senti-
ments relating to the Act for Officers Fees had produced
Some thing more Adequate to Our Judgments thereof, rather

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then a Desire in you Gentlemen of the Lower House, that as
People and Plenty Increase in a Country so ought the Rewards
of Those who for their Care Knowledge and Integrity are

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