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Come as near as Possible to the Laws & Customs of England
I proposed it to you to follow their Example where no Corn-
oner is thought to good to serve his Country as a Juryman.
You have already Given so many signall Proofs of your Zeal-
ous Inclinations to Propagate Learning within this pvince
that I need not Inforce the necessity of it by further Argu-
ment, But as I know your Abilities do not Come up to your
Desires for that Laudable End, And that as yet the fund you
have pvided is not SufP to maintaine One Free School at
Least in Evry County as it is much to be Wished it would I
Offer it to Your Consideration, Whether on Your Humble
Address to his Sacred Majesty (to be Transmitted by my L^d
Propr^y) Setting forth the Truth that you receive no Bennefitt
or Advantage on the Duty Laid on your Tob^o Exported to
the Other Plantations Altho that Duty is Appropriated by the
Crown to the promoteing of Learning in those parts of his
Majestys Dominions it is not Probable his Majestic who has

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Given so Large Examples of his Goodness for the Encourage-
ment of Learning in Great Brittain will be pleased to Extend
his Bounty here and Direct you some Benefitt Equivalent for
that fund that was Intended for the Encrease of Learning
Amongst you.
I say what may you not Expect from so Pious so Gracious
and so Benevolent a Sovⁿ as now fills the Throne whom God
Long Preserve in all Felicity to do so
There are so many Advantages for the making & Repairing
High Roads that the thing speaks [for] itself, so shall only
Observe to you that the Laws in force for that Purpose are
not in many Parts of this Province put in Due Execution as I
Conceive it Proceeds from the Want of a Suff^t Penaltie on the
Overseers and on those that Refuse to pay Obedience to their
Orders And that Generally the Meanest of the People are
Appointed to those Offices w^ch Oblidges me to Repeat what I
sayd on another Occasion no man is too Good to serve his
Country I recomend to you in a Perticular Manner as a
Publick use and Hon^r to this pvince that you will make such
pvision as you shall find necessary for the Building a Bridge
over the River Patuxent at Queen Ann Town in this County
And for making a Safe and Convenient Road Over that
Dangerous Place, called Kent Marshes on the Eastern shoar
these two places being the Great Road through the Heart oi

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this Country And also the usual and Shortest Passage for
all Travellers, to & from his Majesties Plantations on this
Continent.
Since I find the Excessive Charge of the Country for the
Killing of Squirrels does not Decrease in Proportion to what
was Expected I do again Desire that Law may be Taken into

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