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dance on the firm Duty and Loyalty of the present Proprietary,
Governor or Secretary from whence you may Justly conclude that no
Obstacle will arise on their Parts to the Passage of this Bill into a
Law, so that his Majestys Expectations may be complied with from
the Consideration of their Interests in opposition to his Majestys
Service; But it may not be amiss to mention or unworthy your Con-
sideration that when his Majesty is made acquainted (as no doubt
he will) with the dutiful and affectionate Regard the Assembly of
Maryland shews to those Royal Expectations which occasioned this
meeting if perchance it should come to his Royal Ear that the Lower
House of Assembly in the year 1739 insisted that the Act for regu-
lating Ordinaries was not greatly desired, or proper or necessary to
the Ease and Happiness of the province but rather that it was much
complained of, in which the Upper House of Assembly could not
agree with them, and that at that time the Lower House of Assembly
could not be prevail'd upon to revive that Act, But that the same
Lower House of Assembly in the year 1740 (without any cogent
necessity or for want of a better Fund) founded part of their Liber-
ality towards his Majestys Service on such An Act so much Com-
plain'd of, would not such Dispositions manifest that very little
Regard was had to the Goodness or Badness, usefulness or Incon-
venience of the Law, but to any Opportunity or Pretence for prevent-
ing the usual Application of the money arising by such Law, should
the conduct of this Assembly be considered in this Light and should
it appear that this part of the Fund is by this Bill wrongfully per-
verted to the Benefit of the Publick, and that the Assembly has been
generous at the Expence of a particular Person; May not the Case
of this Bill when Passed into a Law prove to be such as may put us

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under a further and more inconvenient necessity, than at present of
making a better provision, to replace the money to be issued by
this Bill
These Observations We thought proper to lay before you, that We
may not endeavour to shew Our Loyalty and Obedience to his
Majestys Desires, by a Bill which perhaps hereafter may not prove
advantageous to us in many Respects Especially as (We apprehend)
we may effectually answer his Majestys Expectations by some other
Fund, more certain, more serviceable to the Credit of Our paper
Currency and more just in every Respect
And We farther Observe that there is not any Provision made
in this Bill, to exempt the masters of the Transport Vessels from
Prosecutions or Suits at Law, for transporting Soldiers enlisted,
and put on Board their Vessels which may happen to be indebted
or under any other Engagement, And this We think highly necessary
to be done, because such Masters will neither have time nor Oppor-
tunity to enquire into the Circumstances of the Soldiers by them to
be transported, nor the Soldiers have time to Comply with the Direc-
tions of the Act of Assembly in such Cases provided neither are