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U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
May 17
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Conformable to the Plan of Action Laid Down for you by our
brave General. I Expect my Last Orders from him soon, and then
you may Depend upon yours from me, untill which Time I Desire
you would keep a Strict Eye over the Gentlemen you have in Cus-
tody & be very Cautious who you Admit to their Conversation I
add no more but conclude with a hearty wish that you all were as
Zealous for the Cause on which all our State Depends as is yours
&c. R. T. M.
December 11th 1747
We do hereby give this Timely Notice to those Persons who shall
hereafter be Chosen Inspectors of the Maryland Tobacco that they
may not Accept of that Office as also to those on whose Plantations
the Ware houses are Appointed to be that they may not build them
on their own Charges unless there Pass an Act of Assembly to Save
them harmeless from all future Damages that may happen to the
Warehouses or Tobacco after Inspection, for Let those Juglers know
who have Jumbled up an Inspection Law, at the Expence of Poor
People that they shall never see it come to its Desired Perfection if
fire and faggot will burn Down the Warehouses and Tobacco in
them; Except they first Pass the following Acts of Assembly, that
is to say an Act to Discountenance all secondhand Merchants as
also an Act to Extricate all Poor Debtors within this Province as
well those who now Languish under Strict Confinement as those who
will most Certainly meet with the Like fate before the Drugery of
the Inspection Law be over and an Act to Enable all Poor People
within this Province to bear the Charges of the aforesaid Law. We
Dont mean such an Act as was Past under Colour to Enable them
by a Reduction of Twenty five p Cent from Tobacco Debts (which
notwithstanding of its fare out side & fine Sugar'd Words can be
called nothing but a Cheat) but such an Act as may Support & not
Ruin them; If these things be Considered & done to the Satisfaction
of us and the People aforesaid our Representatives may hope to see
a happy Conclusion of their Laws for amendment of Tobacco; but
if Rejected and we find no Door of Mercy can be opened but that
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we must be all Run Down without Choice We do now as we have
already Done Declare in the Presence of God to one another and by
these Presents to all Persons whatsoever that if all the secret artes
of Projecting Brains Inspired with Revenge for the Loss of all that
is Dear to them can frustrate the Ends of both Houses of Assembly
and even over turn this whole Province, if we Live it shall be done,
and whilest, it is Invaded with open Enemies abroad it shall be our
whole Study to fill its Bowels with secret ones; The reader Perhaps
may Just read this over for Curiosity sake and Let it Pass away
Tanquam Fabuld (as the Prophets speek of a mans Life) as a Tale
that is told, but however time will shew the Event, and the Event,
if we mistake not will shew that these things was worth Due Notice
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