The Upper House. 49

The Clause Omitted by the 5^th Amendment supposes the Inspec-
tion Law not in force and therefore not in the least proper in this
Bill

We Observe that the Salary for the Inspectors for the Warehouses
at Thomas Bruffs Landing and at the Old field Landing are allowed
but 5o£ Each, and the Inspectors for the Warehouses at Kingston
and Barkers Landing are allowed 6o£ Each, altho (as we are in-
formed) the Trouble is as Great at the former as at the Latter
Places, and therefore we think the Salary ought to be the same
which we recommend to your Consideration
It cannot be Doubted but there May be several things in the
Inspection Law, which may Require some Alteration or Amend-
ment, that cannot now be Discovered, and if they Could would Re-
quire more time than can now well be spared the Consideration of
which we Conceive is much fitter for the Beginning than the Close
of a session And therefore we think the best Course that can now be
taken will be, to agree on such a Bill as all the Branches of the
Legislature concur in, as absolutely necessary to the Due Execution
of the Inspection Law, and Refer what further Amendments may
be Expedient to the Consideration of another Session
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up. Ho.
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower house by Mess^rs Wootton and
Bond Entituled an Act to enable the Justices of Prince Georges
County to Raise fifty four Thousand Pounds of Tobacco for the
repairing and finishing their Court house at Marlborough and for

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
June 10

other Purposes therein mentioned, thus subscribed 10^th June 1748
Read -and assented to by the Lower house of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo. Ho.
Read and assented to by this house and Ordered to be so Sub-
scribed
The Journal of the Committee of Accounts being read is Ordered
to be thus subscribed
By the Upper house of Assembly 10 June 1748
Read and will not be assented to sent by Edward Jenings Esq^r
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H^o
Read the second time the three Bills following, A Bill Entituled
an Additional Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act for
the more Effectual Punishment of Negroes and other Slaves and for
taking away the Benefit of Clergy from Certain Offenders, and to
an Act Entituled an Act to Prevent the Tumultuous Meeting &
other Irregularities of Negroes and other Slaves and Directing the
manner of trying of Slaves: A Bill Entituled a supplementary Act
to the Act Entituled an Act requiring the Masters of Ships and
Vessells to Publish the Rates of their freight before they take any
Tobacco on Board: A Bill Entituled an Act for the Relief and

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