272 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739

U. H. J.
No. 734

Read and assented to by this House and ordered to be so sub-
cribed the Paper Bill so endorsed is sent to the Lower House by
James Hollyday 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

Read the Petition of Michael Taylor a languishing Prisoner in
Prince Georges County Goal and Rejected
A Message from the Lower House by Mess^rs Moale and Hall

p. 64

By the Lower House of Assembly 9 June 1 739
May 1t please Your Honours
If the Honour and Preservation of this Part of his Majestys
Dominion be so nearly concerned (as you are pleased to say) in the
Act for raising Three Pence p hogshead on all Tobacco exported
we cannot well see how those who have had the Disposition of the
Money hitherto raised to that Use can acquit themselves for not
applying it to the Purposes for which it was raised

The Uncertainty whether Peace or War in Europe having sub-
sisted for some time, And there now being the Sum of £2250: 1 1: 2
Sterling & £ 34: 13: 7f Current Gold in Bank arising from that Duty
besides upwards of £2500 Sterling unaccounted for in any Manner ;
We have, as we think, justly concluded, that his Excellency and Your
Honours have been of Opinion, either that Arms & Ammunition
were useless to the Province, or that there is a sufficient Stock already
provided, otherwise that you would never have neglected so essential
a Part of Your Duty as is the Care of and laying out that Money,
had you thought it necessary for the Safety of the People, Wherefore,
until that Money is accounted for, and that in Bank laid out that we
may then judge what more Arms or Ammunition may be wanting.
And further that inasmuch as His Lordship hath possessed himself
of a considerable annual Sum amounting to at least £2200 Sterling
arising on the shiping trading into, and Staple Export of this Prov-
ince, without any Law that appears to Us to levy the same, and which,
were it legal to raise, was intended to support the Government here,
and particularly to supply a Magazine with Arms and Ammunition,
we do not think the Revival of that Law at present necessary
We never heard, unless from Your Honours by Your Message
of Yesterday, that the Act concerning Ordinaries is greatly desired
or thought proper or necessary to the Ease and Happiness of the
Province: We have on the contrary known it much complained of,
and that no Part of it has been put in Execution except the Payment