56 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

The Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco &c. tho a
very useful & desireable Act as to the General Tendency of it
so far as it regards the Staple of Tobacco is yet lyable to such
objections that it is with great Difficulty I have prevailed
upon myself not immediately to Repeal it prevented from the
greatest Utility of that part of the Act relating to the Staple
of Tobacco and from the Affectionate Regard I have to my
Tenants and from a firm Perswasion that my Assembly of
Maryland will immediately on knowing my Pleasure hereby
Signified to you pass an Act to repeal those Parts of this Act
that relates to the Regulating & limiting Officers fees and that
relating to foreign Coins, I have Suffered this Act to Con-
tinue till my Pleasure thereon be known to my Assembly that
they may have an opportunity to pass such an Act of Repeal
as I have above mentioned, and which I hereby direct and
instruct you to Recommend to them in my name in default of
their doing which I shall be under a necessity of repealing the
whole of the above Act. The Objections to which are many
and Various the most Material of which I will point out to
you and which I hereby Strictly enjoin & require you to avoid
in all future Acts to which you give your assent.

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I^st Objection The first Objection is that a Variety of dif-
ferent Matters quite distinct from and independant of One
another are comprehended in one and the same Act which is
contrary to your General Instructions, and as the doing this
has the Air of tacking improper things to a useful and neces-
sary Act, you ought most carefully to avoid every thing of
this kind.

It is the opinion of this Board that, that Instruction was
only relative to new Laws not to Reviving or continuing ones,
but every thing of that kind will be forborn for the future.
2^d objection. By your general Instructions you are re-
quired to take care that nothing be enacted by any Law but is
immediately relative to the Matters expressly mentioned in
the Title of the Act, whereas This Act settles the Rate of
Foreign Coins and makes them Current and legal Tenders at
those Rates and yet there is nothing in the Title that points
out any such Enacting Clause.

It is the Opinion of this Board That if there is any general
Instruction which requires that in the Enacting part of Bills
nothing shall be inserted but what is mentioned in the Title
it ought to be observed.

3^d Objection. This part of the Act relating to Foreign
Coins is contrary to the Act of Parliament of the 6^th of Queen
Ann settling the Rates of Foreign Coins in the British Plan-
tations, and therefore is improper to be enacted by my As-