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Partiall Outrages and Skirmishes which never amounted to a gen-
erall War much less to a Generall Conquest. The Indians yet en-
joying their Rights and Priviledges of Treaties and Trade with
the English of whom we yet frequently purchase their Rights of
such Lands as we take up as well as of the Lord Proprietary.
Resolved further that this Province hath always hitherto had the
common Law and such Generall Statutes of England as are not
restrained by words of Locall Limitation in them and such Acts of
Assembly as were made in the Province to suit its particular Con-
stitution as the rule and Standard of its Government and Judicature
such Statutes and Act of Assembly being subject to the like rules
of Common Law or equitable Construction as are Used by the
Judges in Construing Statutes in England; Which happy rules have
by his Majesty and his Royall Ancestors and also by his Lordship
and his Noble Ancestors or some of them been hitherto approved
by haveing the Commissions of Judicature to include Directions of
that Nature to the Severall and Judiciall Magistrates unless those
words have at any Time been casually or carelessly omitted by the

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Officers in this Province that drew such Commissions. That there-
fore whoever shall advise his Lordship or his successors to govern
by any Other rules of Government are Evill Councellors, Ill wishers
to his Lordship and to our Present happy Constitution and intend
thereby to infringe our English Liberties and frustrate in great
measure the Intent of the Crown by the Originall Grant of this
Province to the Lord Proprietary.
Resolved that for the future the Clerk of this House in all Pro-
ceedings in this House do sign his name as Clerk of the house of
Delegates and in none other manner.
It being moved by a Member of this House to repeal the Acts
prohibiting of Bread &c. Resolved upon the Question Put that a
Bill be brought in to Repeal the said Act.
The House adjourns till to Morrow Morning 9 a Clock

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Tuesday October 8^th 1728.
The House met this day according to Adjournment
The Members were called All Present as Yesterday.
Yesterdays Proceedings were read over.
The Petition of the Reverend M^r William Tibbs of Baltemore
County referred here from the Upper House was read and rejected.
Ordered that a Bill be brought in to Supply the Deficiences of the
Act Entituled an Act for the Encouragement of Learning and
Erecting Schools within the severall Counties of this Province.
On Motion made whether the Gentlemen Practitioners of the
Law returned as Delegates be Admitted to appear at the bar of this

October 8