The Upper House. 543

And as we can Never more Certainly demonstrate the real
Confidence we have in the good People of Maryland than by
ffreely Communicating our Sentiments on the Proceedings of
you their representatives, We now Signify that Altho we have
not yet Dissented to the late Act made for Limitation of
Officers ffees, Yet we Cannot in our Judgments approve there-
of well Knowing that It is neither for our Hon^r or the peoples
Interest in the Dispatch of their Business that Publick Min-
isters should be Deprived of those Allowances which by the
Law they have Enjoyed, and which ought not only to be Suff^t
to pay them for their Labour, But Large enough to Encourage
Industry and Integrity in men of Ability to Administer the
Affairs of the Government whether Actually residing within
the Province or Attending the person of your Lord and
Proprietarie wherever he is.
Gentl. The Ease we find in the receipt of the sev^ll Dutys on
Tob^o Setled in Lieu of our Quitt Rents and Alienation ffines &
the Better to Enable us to Support our Government whereby
you are protected together with the great Bennefitt & Advan-
tage the Poorer & more numerous part of the Inhabitants of
our pvince reaps from thence in the non payment of their
Rents as Reserved has Induced us for the Comon Good to
Consent & Recommend to you to pass a Law for the Continu-

U. H. J.

ance of the Act Entituled An Act Ascertaining the Gauge &
Tare of Tob^o hh^ds &c. to Continue & remain in force for three
years to Comence from the Expiration of the said Act whereby
the af ^d Duties arise & we cannot think you need to be put in
mind to Continue the Act for regulating of Ordinaries for the
reasons among many others recited in the preamble thereof.
We are much Concerned Gentl that you our Friends and
Tenants his Majestys good Subjects can have no Expectation
of Benefitt from the Duty of one penny p pound laid on Tob^o
transported from Plantation to Plantation, His late Majesty
King William (of Glorious Memory) having by Letters Pat-
ents under the greate Seal of England Setled the same forever
on the College of Virginia, but do not Doubt with your Assist-
ance by our Own Power to Establish Such a fund for Encour-
agement of Learning in Maryland as not only to Answer the
very Pious and worthy Design of Supporting the Free school
already Built at Annapolis but to make it so Effectually usefull
that your own Children there made Capable may reap the
Advantage of Discharging the sev^ll Offices of Government
both in Church & Estate to the Conversion of your Neighbours
& Fellow Citizens from the Superstition of the Church of
Rome & to the Manifest good of us all in the Equall Distribu-
tion of Justice.

p. 95