The Lower House. 375

Thursday Morning October 28. 1742

The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
All Members present as Yesterday except M^r Calder
On Reading the Report from the Committee appointed to inspect
the Accounts and Proceedings of the Commissioners for emitting
Bills of Credit it appears that several Clerks of the County Courts
have omitted their duty in returning their Lists of the several Ordi-
nary Keepers to the Commissioners of the Paper Office as they are
by Law directed
The Question was put Whether the Clerks that have neglected
their duty shall be sent for this Session or not? Resolved in the
Negative
For the Negative

M^r Chesley M^r Ennalls M^r Scott
Martin Hindman Sprigg
N. Goldsborough George Tasker
Lloyd Colvil Pemberton
Thomas Hyland Wright
J. Goldsborough Magruder T. Wilkinson

For the Affirmative

M^r Waughop M^r Carroll M^r Yeates
Swann H. Hall Stoughton
Griffith Smith Lecompte
R. Gresham Weems Caswell
Wilson Brome Wootton
J. Gresham Harrison

Col^o Hammond from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker the
Bill entituled an Act for raising three Pence Sterling p hhd on all
Tobacco &c Indorsed thus (See page 301)
Which Bill being Read with the Amendments proposed this House
will not agree therewith Ordered that the said Bill be incerted on the
Journal as follows viz.

L. H. J.

October 28

An Act for raising three Pence Sterling p hhd. on all Tobacco to
be Exported for purchasing Arms and Ammunition for the Defence
of this Province
Whereas His Majesty our most Gracious Sovereign is now en-
gaged in a War with Spain, and lest the Magazine of Arms and
Ammunition now in the Province and the Moneys heretofore raised
by any former Acts should prove insufficient for that Purpose We his
Majestys faithful Subjects the Delegates of the Freemen of Mary-
land in General Assembly convened to testify our zeal to his Majestys
Person and Government, and for putting ourselves in the best and
Speediest Posture of Defence, we are able humbly pray that it may

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