394 Assembly Proceedings, June 22- July 3, 1714.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

thereof may be better preserved and kept ready fixt upon all
Occasions of Service her Majesty commands me to recom-
mend to your Care and Consideration that fit Store Houses
be settled throughout the Province for receiving and keeping
the Arms Ammunition and other publick Stores in Order to
the better Administration of Justice.
It is her Majesty's Pleasure I should recommend to you the
passing a Law (if not already done) wherein shall be set the
Value of Mens Estates either in Goods or Lands under which
they shall not be capable of serving as Jurors.
I have it further in Command from her Majesty to propose
an Act to be passed in this Assembly whereby the Creditors
of Persons becoming Bankrupts in her Kingdom of Great
Britain and having Estates in this Province may be relieved
and satisfied for the Debts owing them

p. 432

Gentlemen, I think it absolutely necessary I should ac-
quaint you that I am strictly enjoined by her most Sacred
Majesty's Royal Instructions not to pass any Law or do any
Act by Grant Settlement or otherwise whereby her Revenue
may be lessened or impaired without her especial Leave or
Command therein. I am further to acquaint you that whereas
several Laws have of late been passed in this her Majesty's
Province relating to protested Bills of Exchange to the Relief
of poor Debtors &c^a which Laws were injurious to the Prop-
erty of her Subjects residing in Great Britain; and which
for the Reasons laid before her Majesty by the Right Honour-
able the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations they
thought fit to repeal,
Her Majesty's Will and Pleasure is that for the future I do
not pass or give my Assent to any Act of Assembly wherein
the Property of her Majesty's Subjects residing in Great
Britain shall be any ways concerned unless there be an express
Provisoe in the said Law that the same shall not be in force in
this Province till after the Expiration of Eighteen Months in
Time of War and twelve Months in Time of Peace; to the
End her Majesty's Pleasure may be known upon such Law
before it be put in Execution here.
Jo. Hart.

Col^o Richard Tilghman from the Honourable Council came
and acquainted the House that his Excellency the Governor
approved of the Choice made of the Clerk of this House and
desired he may be sent up to the Council Chamber to be
qualified.

Ordered, That M^r Robert Tyler and Col^o Philip Hoskins go
along with Thomas Macnemara the Clerk chosen to the