10 Assembly Proceedings, October 11-27, 1720.

U. H. J.

to Explain or reenact the said Law that whilst you are En-
deavouring to Secure and Quiett men In their Possessions
you do not bind them Down to the Determination of Comis-
sioners to be appointed by Virtue of the said Act, as to make
their Sentence finall w^thout Appeale (Except Conditionally to
his Majestic in Councill as by the said Act is provided, To
whose sacred person Every man ought to be at Liberty to Ad-
dress themselves w^thout our Intermedling therewith by Acts
of Assembly) Whereby in a Manner you Even Shutt up the
Courts of Justice w^ch can never Correspond with the Liberty
of a free people or bee deemed Consonant to the Laws of Great
Brittaine the Standard by w^ch we are all Obliged to govern
our Councills.

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Among the Severall Laws made at a Sessions of Assembly in
May Last we have thought fitt to Dissent to the Act Entituled
an Act for the Relief of John Beale of Charles County Gentl"
And Richard Beale a minor and do hereby Declare the same
Null Void and of no Effect for as much as the Legislature of
great Brittain never Interferes to dispose of property without
Consent of all Parties leaving Every man's right to be rul'd by
the known Laws of the Land.
And as we Can never more Certainly demonstrate the real
Confidence we have in the Good people of Maryland, than by
freely Comunicating 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 Honour or the
Peoples Interest in the Dispatch of their Business that Pub-
lick ministers should be deprived of those Allowances which
by the Law they have Enjoyed And which ought not Onely to

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be Suff^t to pay them for their Labour, but Large Enough to
Encourage Endustry and Integrity in men of Ability to Ad-
minister the Affairs of the Government whether actually re-
siding w^thin the Province or Attending the Person of your
Lord and Proprietary where ever he is. Gentlⁿ. The Ease
we find in the Receipt of the Severall Dutys on Tob^o Settled in
lieu of our Quitt Rents and Alienation Fines and the Better
to Enable us to Support our Government whereby you are
protected togeather with the great Benefitt and Advantage
the Poorer and more numerous part of the Inhabitants of our
Province reap from thence In the non payment of their rents
as reserved has Induced us for the Common Good to Consent
and recomend to you to pass a Law for the Continuance of the
Act Entituled an Act Ascertaining the Gauge and Tare of
Tob^o hh^ds & to continue & remain in force for three years to