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Which foregoing Bills being read are thereto severally
thus Written Viz.
August the 3^d 1721

Read and Assented to by the Upper house of Assembly and
Signed p order Joh Beale Cl. Up. ho.

Which three Paper Bills of the aforesaid three Engrost
bills sent to the Lower house by Col Tilghman who is required

U. H. J.

to Acquaint them that the aforesaid Engrost Bills are As-
sented to by this House who returnes and says he Delivered
the Paper Bills and Acquainted them Accordingly
His Honour the Governour is pleased to Communicate to
this house a Letter by him wrote to the Speaker of the Lower
house in relation to the bill for preventing the makeing
Trashy Tobacco and for the bettering the Staple of this
Province
Which Letter is as follows Viz.

August the 3^d 1721
S^r
By an Instruction from the Crown I am required not to
pass any Act that may Affect the trade of the Inhabitants of
great Brittain Unless such Act shall be made to Commence at
least Twelve months after the makeing thereof, Now as
Merch^t Traders will be Obliged to Accept of Hemp and flax
Instead of Tobacco it may seem to be within the Design of the
said Instruction, And therefore Desire that that part of the
Act proposed for the preventing the making Trashy Tob^o &
for the bettering the Staple of this Province relating to flax
and hemp be made to Commence Accordingly which I hope
will be noe Inconvenience Considering the People of this
Province Cannot make a Quantity more than to Supply their
own Occasions before such time I am
S^r Your Obliged humble Servant
Charles Calvert

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P. S. Let such Limitation of time have no Regard to the
Inhabitants or Officers of this Province but that They be
obliged to take it here as if no such Limitacon was made.

Which bill for Preventing the makeing of Trashy Tobacco
and for the bettering the Staple of this Province being read is
Ordered to be thus Endorst Viz.

By the Upper house of Assembly
August the 3^d 1721
Gentlemen. This bill being read will Pass with the follow-
ing Amendm^t Viz. (with a Proviso that, that part of the Law

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