your Lordships acceptance of an Equivalent for your Quit Rents
and Alienation fines will greatly Contribute and as we propose to
ease the People in Their payments on the one Side so we Humbly
Hope your Lordship will be of Opinion that four Thousand pound
Sterling p Annum Clear of all Charges and Expences to your Lord-
ship is such an Offer as Shews we Have that Regard to your Interest
which in Justice we ought to have this Sum of four Thousand pounds
Sterling which we now offer Your Lordship we hope may be raised
in Such a manner as will Burthen Trade very Little if at all and be
a means to raise the Credit of our paper Currency now very much
Depricated which we Humbly Conceive will appear to your Lord-
ship upon perusal of the Scheme for raiseing the money and Col-
lecting the rents which we begg leave to Lay before you as we have
it in our View to give your Lordship this Equivalent as it may be
most agreeable and Satisfactory to you to ease Your Tennants in
the manner of Discharging their Quit Rents and Alienation fines
and to raise the Credit and Value of Our Currency upon which the
Wellfare and Prosperity of the People of Maryland in great measure
depend so we humbly Hope for your Lordships Acceptance and Ap-
probation of what we propose and that you will Please to give his
Excellency the Governour Instructions to pass a Bill to Establish
the Offer now made we are with the greatest Respect and Sincerity.
May it Please your Lordship your Lordships most faithfull Ten-
nants and most Obedient Humble Servants.
And the following Scheme Proposals for paying the Right Honble
the Lord Proprietary an Equivalent for his Quit Rents and Alienation
fines without Burthening Trade and for easing the Inhabitants of
Maryland in the manner of Paying the said Rents and fines.
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