304 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1769-1770.

Lib. C. B.

No. 20

Religious Worship may be taken away; Nor are you to Suffer
any Act to pass for Dividing or Dismembering any Parish of
the Province or any other Act by which the Incumbents may
lose their Income Profits or the Provision made for the Clergy
on Account of such taking away or giving to others during the
Lives of the Incumbents without such Incumbent or Incum-
bent's Consent; and you are to suffer no Private Act to Pass
without Notice being first given to the Persons Concerned and
Interested and Liberty given them to make their Defence; Nor
any Private Act in which there is not a Saving of the Rights
of us and Our Heirs and all Bodies Politick and Corporate and
all other Persons not Named in the Act.
7^th You are not to give your Assent to any Bill in the As-
sembly which shall be Repugnant to the Laws of Great Britain
nor to any Bill of an Unusual and extraordinary Nature and
Importance where Our Charter, Prerogative or the Property
of his Majesty's Subjects may be prejudiced without having
first transmitted to us the Draft of such Bill and Our having
signified Our Pleasure thereupon; or without taking care in
the passing of any Act of an Unusual and extraordinary

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Nature that there be a Clause Inserted therein suspending and
deferring the Execution thereof until Our Pleasure be known
concerning the same.
8^th You are to observe in the passing of all Laws that what-
ever may be requisite upon each different Matter be accord-
ingly Provided for by a different Law without intermixing in
one and the same Act such things as have no proper Relation
to each other; and you are more especially to take Care, that
no Clause or Clauses be inserted in or Annexed to any Act
which shall be foreign to what the Title of such Act imparts ;
And that no Act whatever be suspended, altered, revived con-
firmed or repealed by general Words, but that the Title and
Date of such Acts so suspended, Altered Reviewed Confirmed
or Repealed be particularly mentioned.
9^th You are to suffer no Law relating to the Paper Currency
to pass but what shall be in all things Conformable to the Acts
of Parliament in that behalf made.
10^th You are from time to time to fill up all vacant places
in Our said Province of Maryland and appoint and continue
such Persons in Offices as by Our Commissions or Instruc-
tions are mentioned. As to all other Offices not so particularly
given in Direction to you, you are to appoint and continue
such Persons in such Offices during Our Pleasure as you shall
think Necessary and grant them the Usual Commissions on
Your Arrival, Transmitting to us an Account of all such
Persons so put into employments for Our Consent and Appro-