432 Assembly Proceedings, July 11-August 8, 1732.

U. H. J

By the Upper house of Assembly 5^th August 1732
Gentlemen
His Excellency the Governor in a paper directed to this house
having recommended an Amendment to the Act for Regulating the
Militia in this Province & likewise that some Care should be taken
for cleaning & preserving the Arms & other Utensils of Warr lodged
in the severall Counties which cannot be Effectually done but by
an Act of Assembly for that purpose, We therefore propose that a
short Bill be prepared impowering the Captain Lieutenant & Ensign
or any two of them to impose & Levy fines on any of the Souldiers
not performing their Duty; This being the Defect complayned of
in the Militia Law, and for raising the three pence p hh^d on Tobacco
for furnishing Arms & Ammunition in this Province part of which
may be Applyed towards Cleansing & preserving the Arms &c in the
severall Countys and the remaining part to such other uses as shall
be thought necessary for the Common Safety with which if your
House Concurs a bill may be prepared accordingly.
Signed p Order John Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

Read the second time the bill Entituled an Act for the Assesment
of so much Tobacco on the Inhabitants of S^t Paul's parish in Prince
Georges County &c ordered to be thus Endorsed [See Lower House
Proceedings.]

p. 233

By the [Lower] House of Assembly 5^th August 1732
May it please Your Honours.
This House hath considered the Amendments proposed by your
Honours to the Paper Currency Bill and cannot agree that the Gov-
ernor or President for the time being shall Appoint the Com^rs or
Trustees because that in all Acts of Parliament concerning Money
wherein Com^rs are Necessary to put the Acts in Execution they (the
Com^rs) are always inserted in the Acts & never Appointed by the King
And in the Acts for Emitting Bills of Credit in our Neighbouring-
Colonies the same method is observed; besides as the publick faith
of this Province is engaged to Support the Bills of Creditt This
house beleives it would be more Agreeable to his Excellency that the
Com^rs or Trustees should be named by both houses than by himselfe
in regard that no branch of Prerogative is thereby infringed and that
his Excellency will be intirely Clear of any Imputation of Appointing
unfit persons for so Important a Trust in Case any Mismanagement
or Corruption should happen.

This House Agrees that all his Lordships rents of any kind &
Alineation fines be excepted but conceives that it would be hard that
fines & forfeitures for breaches of the Peace or any Penal Laws
should not be discharged in Bills of Credit, and therefore proposes
that the Provisoe be restrained to Rents of all kinds & alineation
fines the Duties on Tobacco & Tonage being already Excepted