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Inquiry, we request your Excellency would be pleased to
direct the Statutes of our Mother Country in Force in this
Province guarding against such Offences to be carried into
Execution whereby a Stop may be put to an Evil which if
not timely prevented may be productive of great Mischief to
the good People of this province.
2^d May 1757.
Read and assented to by the Lower House of
Assembly, signed p.. Order.
Henry Hooper Speaker.

By the Committee of Aggrievancies and Courts of Justice
28^th April 1757.

Your Committee beg Leave to represent as an Aggriev-
ance that several Persons professing the Romish Religion
have taught School in Baltimore County and that one doth
still teach School in the said County near the Head of Deer
Creek as by the annexed Depositions may appear and humbly
report it as their Opinion that the tollerating such Schools in
Opposition to the Statutes of our Mother Country must
greatly tend to the poisoning the Minds of the Youth of this
Province, and alienating their Affections from our present
most happy Establishment in Church and State but submit it
to the Consideration of the honourable House.
Signed p Order
B.. Nicholson Cl:

The Deposition of Archibald Standiford of Baltimore
County taken the 26.. April 1757..
This Deponent being sworn on the holy Evangels of Al-
mighty God saith that Don Connolly kept a School the last
year in the said County near my Lady's Manor, and that
the said Connolly warranted two or three Persons for school-
ing their Children, and at the time of trying one of the War-
rants against William Crabtree before Justice Boyce, he

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this Deponent heard the said Don Connolly then say that the
said Crabtree would not pay him because he the said Con-
nolly was a papist upon which the said Justice said he would
not be concerned with it but desired them to leave the same
to be decided by two of their Neighbours and further saith
not.
Arch.. Standiford

Sworn to before me the Day and Year above written:
Walter Tolley.

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