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The Conferees adjourn and on their Meeting again The Conferees
of both Houses agree, that no Person shall by this Act be exempted
from Arrest, unless all the Debts he shall owe at the time of inlist-
ing, shall not exceed the Sum of the Bounty to be given to Each,
and that Provision shall be made that Publick Notice be given of
Each Person inlisting, to the End that their Creditors may make
their Claims appear by a Certain Day, and if such Claims shall not
in the whole exceed the Bounty, then they shall be discharged there-
with, but if the Claims are more, then the Debtor shall not be entituled
to the Bounty and that after the Day appointed no Person having
received said Bounty shall be subject to arrest for any Debt not
claimed, or exceeding the Bounty as aforesaid
That the Money shall not be paid to the Party (in Case of no
Debts or Debts not amounting to the Bounty) until such time after
inlisting as there shall be a Certificate under the hand of the Captain,
or other superior Officer produced to the Agent that such Person is
inlisted and so well secured that there is no danger of his Deserting
And that the number of Men to whom the Bounty is to be given be
five hundred
The Conferees of the Upper House deliver themselves thus
The Upper House on Consideration of Your Proposal to repay
the Money advanced for Encouragement of the Levies out of the
Current Money Duties &c are of Opinion, that whether such Money
be repaid by a moderate Tax on the People, or by those Duties, will
consequentially be the same, but that the first may perhaps be least
burthensome to the People, for if such Duties be charged with the
Repayment of this Money, the whole Publick Levy must be raised
by a Tax, and perhaps at once on the People; but if those Duties
should not be so charged with the Repayment of this Sum for the
Levies, it might be repaid by moderate and gradual Taxes, and the
Publick Levy or some great Part thereof might be immediately paid
out of the Office (which cannot be if this money be taken out of the
Duties) and such Money be repaid by those Duties. This we have
in Command from Our House to acquaint you with, that upon this
Representation you may fix on which Method you please
The Conferees of the Lower House desire to withdraw and take
the Advice of their House thereon ;
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Calvert
Paper
No. 735
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The Conferees of the Lower House deliver themselves in the
following Words
As the Repayment of the Money to be advanced for Encourage-
ment of the Levies &c out of the Current Money Duties &c or by a
moderate Tax on the People, will be consequentically the same, we
are directed by the Lower House to agree to which ever of the
two Ways Your Honours shall be pleased to choose The Con-
ferees of the Upper House make the following Choice accordingly.
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