380 Assembly Proceedings, July 10— August 8, 1729.

U. H. J.

now bears (w^ch are such, your Honours know very well, that People
can hardly maintain themselves with the greatest Industry they can
use) We entreat your Honours to Consider the wretched Condition
they will be reduced to, who shall be obliged to pay a large share of
what they make to the Officers & for other Dues, and how it will be
possible for them to save their families from starving, with what the
small remains of their Crops will produce
Should the Officers be exempt from a deduction of their fees pro-
portionable to what other People are subject to, it would (We con-
ceive) be a manifest Partiality in their favour, which We hope the
Legislature of Maryland will avoid the Imputation of
We request your Honours to consider the Reasons herein & such
other as your own Judgments may suggest to you, & that you will
not insist on an Alteration, lyable to so many Exceptions & so un-

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just & unequal in itself, but pass the Bill without it
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

A Bill from the Lower house by Coll Gale and M^r Key Entituled
a supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act to prevent the
Abuses of concealing convicted felons & other Offenders imported
into this Province & for the better Discovery of them thus Endorsed

By the Lower house of Assembly 7^th August 1729
Read the first & second time by an Especial Order & will pass
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Which being read in this house is ordered to be thus Endorsed

By the Upper house of Assembly 7^th August 1729
Read the first & second time by an Especial Order & will pass
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho

Sent to the Lower house by John Hall Esq^r
Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the morning with the Addition of Benjamin Tasker
Esq^r
An Engrossed Bill from the lower house by Coll. Fendall & M^r
Thompson Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an
Act to prevent the abuses of concealing convicted felons & other
Offenders imported into this province & for the better Discovery of
them subscribed thus