The Upper House. 479

The Law that relates to your Quitt Rents as it now Stands
took it's rise from my Observation of the wrongs done the
late Lord Propr^y in the Collecting, and from the manifold
Inconveniencies and Difficultys the Tenants Labour'd under
in the paying them. In order to redress both, I proposed the
Expedient of Adding Six pence p hh^d to the 18^d formerly given
to be in full Satisfaction for your Quitt Rents and Alienation
Fines

This with much Difficulty (as you may Remember) was
Obtained, And now after some years Experience I have the
pleasure to find no Propr^y has Ever rece^d so great an Annual
Income as the present Lord has done Since the passing that
Act, nor were Ever the Tenants better pleased or more Easy
in their Possession

It is Obvious my View in Laying this Scheme was purely

U. H. J.

to promote a Comon good, this Obliged me to represent it to
their Lordships as I now recomend it to you, that it may be
again agreed on & Re-enacted, but that you may be Able to
Evince the Justice and Conveniency of this Act against the
designing Insinuations of its self-interested Accusers who on
pretence of Friendship woud Impose on his Lordship to his
own and the Country's Damage, It will require your Care to
Compare the Value of the rents that have been annually Col-
lected on the former Establishment with the Sumes that have
been paid his Lordships Agent Since the Comencing this Act
that Lays the two Shillings on Each hh^d Exported by which
his Lordship may the Better Judge of his Friends And the
Truth of this Position you have time before you And It is the
Concern of every Freehold^r that falls under your Circum-
spection in this pticular.
I am Comanded by his Sacred Majestys Instructions, to
take Care that Trade in all its branches be duly regulated in
this his Province. I do therefore in his name recommend it to
you that the Ascertaining the Gauge and Tare of your Tob^o
hh^ds be not in any wise neglected on the Expiration of the
present Act
Gentl. The Claim made by the Papists of a right to hold all
Offices in this Government in an Equall degree with the Pro-
testants seems still to be kept on foot by them, Tho some few
there are and very few of that p swasion whose prudence
renders them more Cautions, Yet I observe they all fforbear
making any Renunciation of their Pretensions, And altho the
many Defeats they have mett with during my Administratior

p. 5

May have discouraged them from an Open procedure, yet It
is highly probable they wait a more favourable Conjuncture to
put their Designs in practice

p. 6