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Read the second time the following Bills Viz: An Act reviving an
Act of Assembly Entituled an Act for relieving the Inhabitants of
this Province from some Aggrievances in the Prosecution of Suits
at Law and for reviving & continuing the supplementary Act thereto ;
An Act reviving an Act of Assembly Entituled An Act for the
Advancement of Justice as also an Act of Assembly Entituled a
Supplementary Act to the Act for Advancement of Justice; An Act
reviving an Act of Assembly of this Province Entituled an Act for
the speedy Recovery of small Debts out of Court before a single
Justice of the Peace; An Act to revive and continue an Act for the
better Relief of poor Debtors; An Act to revive an Act of Assembly
of this Province Entituled a supplementary Act to the Act Entituled
an Act for emitting & making Current ninety thousand Pounds Cur-
rent Money of Maryland in Bills of Credit and to restrain some evil
Practices of Sheriffs under Colour of the said Act committed; and
will not pass, and sent to the Lower House by Edmund Jenings and
Samuel Chamberlain Esqrs
The several Paper Bills the Originals of which have passed this
House are sent to the Lower House by Samuel Chamberlain Esqr
A Message from the Lower House with the Journal of Accounts
by Mr King and four Others
By the House of Delegates 29 July 1740
May it please Your Honours
We are very much surprised that you should think it inconsistent
with the Disposition of the Governor and Chancellor to shew either
Mercy or Lenity without being paid for the same by the Publick
contrary to a Law of the Province And It is as extraordinary for you
to say that We find fault with the Use of the Seal to such a Purpose,
because We refuse to pay, contrary to Your Presumption, that there
is no Law against the Allowance: It is from the Assurance We
have, that there is such a Law, that We then did, and now disallow
that Article
If any Part of the 54898£ Tobacco charged by the Secretary and
Attorney General, be on such a footing as ought in Justice to be
allowed by the Publick that being made appear hereafter, it may be
paid; but We conceive the whole to arise from the Cause assigned
in Our former Message, and therefore cannot allow thereof
And if the Prisoners were discharged by Order of the King in
Council, sure that is a plain Indication that his Majesty disapproved
of the Prosecutions, and if they have recognized, their Recognizances
are lyable: We consider the Attorney General and Secretary in
Execution of their great Offices are to serve the Lord Proprietary,
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