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Denomination tho they are by the Act expressly declared to
be no legal Tender, & the Event has shewn that no positive
Declarations of Laws can give so much Credit to Paper
Money as the certain Knowledge that the Fund appropriated
to sink it cannot prove deficient & I really think that Mary-
land has adopted the only Plan for Emitting Paper Money not
liable to Objections either here or in Great Britain. As to
the Act for a general Registry of Deeds for Conveying Land
within this Province I have nothing more to offer than I wrote
last Decemr concerning it, in Justice a Clause certainly ought
to have been inserted to compel a previous Payment of the
Alienation Fines but since the Lower House would not admit
such Clause it will I believe be your Ldp's Interest to pass
the Act as it stands & leave it to the Chancery Court to do
that Justice the Lower House of Assembly declined doing for
tis it seems an established Point that in a Case of Quit-Rent
the Chancery Court can regularly take Cognizance & Decree
payment be the Sum in question ever so trivial. All the Acts
passed last Session as well as the Journal of the Proceedings
in the Lower House being at length printed I shall herewith
transmit them in order to be presented to your Ldp with my
Sentiments on them respectively. When the Assembly meets
again I shall communicate to them in form your Ldps oblig-
ing Answer to their joint Address which I have already men-
tioned to the Gentlemen of the Council resident in this place
who are much pleased with what your Ldp has communicated
to me relative to their Address to the King on the Repeal of
the Stamp Act & are glad to hear that both the Addresses
from this Province to the Throne arrived so opportunely as
to contradict in some measure the opinion which the Enemies
of these Colonies were industriously propagating. Mr Ham-
ersley having intimated to me that your Ldp desired to have
two or three of those Maryland Gazettes in which was adver-
tised the Scheme of the Liberty Lottery as it was termed I
shall transmit a few by this Conveyance ; It was as appears by
the Advertisement to have been drawn the 25th of last Month
but Alass the Spirit of the People has not seconded that of
the patriotic Leaders so as to take off the Tickets or else they
have been advised to drop it, for it has not been yet drawn &
no Advertisement relative to it has been inserted in the late
Gazettes. But tho the Lottery should not answer their
Expectations They will I presume be able to raise Money
enough by Contribution to prosecute the Appeal if they are
inclined to do so, tho it is not improbable that the answer
which was returned to the Application of the Committee that
was appointed by the Lower House to meet here in the
Interval of Assemblies to rummage the Records will be made
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