The Lower House. 149

Then was read the Proceedings of this House on Yesterday
On reading the Address of the Visitors of the Free School
to his Excellency the Governor and Council and the Indorse-
ment thereon made it is ordered that Summons issue to Mr
Benjamin Ball of Kent Island the Person interested in the
said House and Lot in the said Representation mentioned
which is commonly called the Kentish Ordinary as claiming
under the Heir at Law of Anthony Workman deceased
requiring him if to him it shall seem meet to appear before
the Bar of this House on next Tuesday the 17th of this Instant
in the Forenoon to shew sufficient Reasons why the Rector
Governors and Visitors aforesaid shall not have Leave to
bring in a Bill to invest in them an Estate in fee simple in the
said House and Lot.
Mr Thomas Bordley from the Committee of Laws delivers
Mr Speaker an ingrossed Bill repealing a Clause in an Act for
Establishment of Religious Worship and appointing the Oaths
of Abjuration to be taken in this Province.
Col^o Thomas Addison and Colo Richard Tilghman from the
Honble Council deliver Mr Speaker the following Message Viz.

By his Excellency the Governor and Council in Assembly
May the 14th 1715
Gentlemen,

In Answer to your Message by Mt Tyler and several others
relating to the Revenue we acquaint you that his Excellency and

this Board do concur with your House that the Revenue of
the one Moiety of 2/p Hhd. on Tobacco exported being
wholly appropriated by his most Sacred Majesty ought not to
be burthened with the Payment of any Salary to his Majesty's
Receivers but that their Salaries ought to be paid out of the
Fines and Forfeitures falling in this Province And if the said
Fines and Forfeitures shall not be sufficient therefor then it
may be advisable to consider of the 27th Article of his Excel-
lency's Instructions communicated to you. We likewise
concur with you that the Number of the said Receivers be
reduced to one and acquaint you that we know of no other
Receivers of his Majesty's said Revenue but Mr John Rousby
& Mr John Dansey who act by the Authority of the Govern-
ment here being appointed to those Offices on the Death of
George Plater and George Muschamp Esqrs formerly appointed

L. H. J.

to those Offices by the Crown But since that his Majesty's
Surveyor General has a particular Authority over the Officers
of the Revenue here and is now Dayly expected his Excel-
lency will take Care on his Arrival to settle this Matter with
him.

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