The Upper House. 11

Comence from the Expiration of the said Act whereby the
aforesaid Duties arise and we Cannot think you need be put
in mind to Continue the Act for regulateing 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 Majesty's good Subjects can have no Expectation
of benefitt from the Duty of one penny -p pound laid on

U. H.J.

Tobacco transported from Plantation to Plantation his Late
Majesty King William (of Glorious Memory) having by Let-
ters Patents Under the great Scale of England Setled the
same for Ever on the College of Virginia, but do not Doubt
w^th your Assistance by our own power to Establish Such a
fund for Encouragem^t of Learning in Maryland as not only
to ans^r the very Pious and worthy Designe of Supporting the
Free School already built at Annapolis but to make it so Effect-
ually usefull that your own Children there made Capable may
reap the Advantage of Dischargeing the severall Offices of
Government both in Church and Estate to the Conversion of
your Neighbours and Fellow Citizens from the superstition
of the Church of Rome And to the manifest good of us all in
the Equall Distribution of Justice

Whereupon the following Message is Prepared Viz

By the Upper house of Assembly

October the 13^th 1720
Gentlemen. You have herew^th sundry Instructions and
their Lordships Speech that Was Layd before you last As-
sembly which his Honour the Gov^r in pursuance of their Lord-

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ships Commands Comunicated to us & has Likewise Required
the same to be layd before you

Signed p order Joh Beale Cl Up ho.

James Bowles Esq^r being Sent for Appears in this House
And thereupon he is Desired to Qualifie himself as one of the
Members of his Lordships honourable Councill of State of this
Province by takeing the severall Oaths required to be taken
by Act of Assembly as Alsoe the Usuall Oath of Councellor
which several Oaths the s^d James Bowles takes And Signes
the Oath of Abjuration and Test According to the Directions
of the Act af^d And takes his place in this house Accordingly
The House Adjourns untill the Afternoon.

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