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No. 2954

Markets, so as to make 3/4, of the Value of the whole; as the Markets
do not depend upon Maryland alone for Supply.
The last reason given by the Houses for your Lordship's Appro-
bation of the Act, Your Pet^ers humbly hope is, of its self, sufficient
for the repeal of it; It is, that the Clergy are to have the same prices,

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for their Grain, as Tobaco Creditors are obliged to receive when
they Execute upon their Debtors for Tobaco which they cannot pay ;
the Houses in this reason alluding to the Act pass'd 1722 w^ch is for
the releif of poor Insolvent Debtors, who cannot pay their Tobaco
Debts in Specie, th^l they may not lay in prison if they have any of the
comodities mention'd to pay y^r Debts in; But, for the Assembly,
without any reason, to put the Clergy [on] that foot, with relation to
every one of their Parishioners, Solvent or Insolvent, & to make them
take their payments in all events, as other persons are forced to do
in case of desperate Debts, is so great a Hardship upon the Clergy
that they humbly hope, that alone, wou'd induce y^r Lordship, to
Dissent to the Present Act.
Y^r pet^er therefore for himself & for his Brethren, most humbly
prays y^r Lord^ps Consideration of the pmises, & th^t his Agent & Coun-
sel may be heard upon the s^d Act before y^r Ldsp. And that thereupon
the s^d Act may be totally dissented to & repeal'd, & the Clergy of y^r
Ldp's Province fully releiv'd in the pses, & th^t y^r Ldsp wou'd in y^r
great wisdom free them from any future occasion for these repeated
troublesome & expensive applications.
And they as in Duty bound shall
ever pray &^ca &^ca
Ferd: John Paris
Agent for the Pet^er 18^th Nov^ber 1730

NB All Parties were heard by their Counsel accordingly on the
—— 1730 before the Lord Proprietor.

December the 17^th 1730, all parties attended before the L^d Pro-
prietor, who Declared his Assent to the Act, entituled an Act for
Improving the Staple of Tobaco, & for continuing part of an Act
ascertaining the Gauge & Tare of Tobaco hogsheads; & to prevent
Cropping, Cutting & Defacing Tobaco taken on board Ships & ves-
sels upon freight; & for laying Impositions on Tobaco p^r the hogs-
head, for the support of governm^t, & for the encouraging Settlements
in this province, by ascertaining the manner of paying his Ldsp's
Alienation Fines & Quit-Rents, for the Term therein proposed; & for
the taking off the 3^d p^r hh^d formerly rais'd for the Public Charge.

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His Lordship to the Clergy
Reverend Gentlemen
I have rec^d your's complaining of Injustice done you by the Altera-
tion, in your 40 p^r Pole, made the last Sessions; Your Sollicitor