Assembly Proceedings, March — April 1671. 249

The House met again Present as in the Morning and
Adjourned till nine of the Clock on Monday Morning in respect
the Lower House were Adjourned till Monday Morning

Monday April 3^d 1671

The House met Present the Right honourable the Governour
the Chancellour Secretary Thomas Trueman and Edw^d Fitz-
herbert Esq^rs and

Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

The House met again Present as in the Morning & Col.
Calvert

The Lower House sent a paper to this House in these
Words Viz.

Monday the 3^d day of April 1671
At the Lower House of Assembly

The House having Seriously debated and Considered of the
two Bills sent to this House by the Upper House of Assembly
the one Entituled an Act for the naturalization of Foreigners
The other Entituled an Act for the raising and providing a
Supply for his Lordship the Lord and Proprietor towards the
defraying of the publick Charges of the Government
And the Question being put whither the said two Bills should
pass as they were then penned and presented
Resolved that the said Act for Naturalization of Foreigners
do pass with this Amendment that the said Act continue only
for two Years and that there be therein a Proviso or new Law
made that all Persons born in this Province and Inhabiting the
same though born of foreign Parents not Naturalized before
their Deaths and Enjoying Lands by descent or otherwise by
or from their said Parents and all Lands by such Persons pur-
chased or otherwise lawfully possessed may hold & Enjoy all
such their Lands and Tenements according to their respective
Rights & Titles therein as freely as if such Persons so inhabiting
and born in this Province and their Parents had been natural-
ized
The other Act being read

U. H.

Journal
1659-98

Resolved that this House are willing to Assent thereunto
with this Amendment Viz. That the Imposition be only twelve
pence sterling on every hh^d of tob^o. and that only for two
Years now next Ensuing to Commence from the first day of
September next
Resolved by this House that an Act be drawn for the Con-
firming of all Lands and Estates to any the Inhabitants of this
Province by them now possessed or Enjoyed and which they

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