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years ago who intimated that he had some Right to the
Mannour, but I have heard nothing more of it since that time.
I am glad His Ldp approved of my Presenting Mr Walker to the
Parish called St Mary White Chappie in Dorchester County ;
& that he hath been likewise pleased to accept my Recom-
mendation of Mr Barclay whom I inducted a few Days ago
into All Hallow's Parish which as I sometime since informed
you was Vacated by the Decease of Mr Spencer. It gives me
much Satisfaction to know that His Ldp was pleased with the
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Speech which I made to the Assembly in March last, & I hope
he will likewise approve of what I said to them the 26th of last
Month, at which Time I met them in Consequence of a Letter
that I had about a fortnight before received from General
Monkton: This you will perceive was the Reason I gave for
Convening the Assembly at that time, but I believe what
weighed most with the Gentlemen of the Council when they
advised me to take this Step was a Desire to Relieve the Land
Holders particularly the Roman Catholicks from the great &
unequal Tax that was about to fall on them in Consequence
of the Act for Granting a Supply of £40000 &c which was
made in 1756 & whereby it was provided & directed that lest
the Funds appropriated for Sinking the said Sum should
prove deficient that a certain number of Members from both
Houses should on the first Monday in Augt 1760 meet at the
Loan Office to examine the State & Annual Produce of the
said Funds & that in Case they should be thereby convinced
that the Funds would prove deficient, that then they should
issue Certificates to the several Collectors of the Land Tax
certifying that there was such Deficiency & directing the sev-
eral Collectors to Demand & Receive from the Land-Holders
within their respective Counties as much over & above the
usual Land Tax as would altogether make good the Defiency.
Accordingly several of the Commissioners having met in
Augst last to examine the State of the Funds & found that at
the time when the money which had been emitted ought to be
sunk there would be a Deficiency of more than £14.000
(scarcely one of the Funds having produced as much as was
expected) they made out Certificates agreeable as they con-
ceived to the Directions of the Act & thereby required the
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Collectors to Demand & receive within this Year commencing
the 29th of Septr from every Land Holder being a Protestant
an Additional Sum of Seven Shillings & seven pence over &
above the one Shilling otherwise payable & from every
Papist the Sum of Fifteen Shillings & Two pence additional
Tax for every hundred Acres of Land by them respectively
holden. As no Body at the Time the £40,000 Act was made
apprehended that the Deficiency of the Funds would be a
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