50 Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 11, 1748.

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

Release of Distressed Prisoners for Debt; and will not pass, sent
by Daniel Dulany Esq^r

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock.

June 11

Saturday Morning 11^th June 1748
This House met again according to adjournment

Present as Yesterday
A Bill from the Lower house by Mess^re Smalwood and Hyland
Entituled an Act to enable M^rs Sarah Hollyday Executrix of James
Hollyday Esq^r Deceased to Pay the money therein mentioned thus
Endorsed.

By the Lower house of Assembly 10 June 1748
Read the first and second time by Especial Order and will pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.
Read the first and second time by Especial Order in this house ;
passed and sent by Richard Lee Esq^r
A Message from the Lower house by Mess^rs Ennals and Paca
By the Lower house of Assembly 11 June 1 748
May it please your honours
In Answer to your Message of yesterday by Col Hammond with
the Bill Entituled an Act for altering and Establishing certain Ware-
houses and for other purposes therein mentioned, This house have
agreed that the first Part of the Bill that you object to be Left Out.
Also they have agreed to Leave out your 2^d Objection thereto
being of opinion that the Inspection Law sufficiently Guards there-
fore .

p. 267

As to that part of the Bill to which your honours Propose the
3^d Amendment We think it so equitable and Agreeable to the In-
spection Law that We hope your Honours will not insist on having
that Clause Left Out of the Bill; For not only you but all that ever
read the Inspection Law must be of Opinion that the true and Genu-
ine Design thereof in Regard to Tobacco Debts was that all such
Debts Due at the time of making thereof, and which should be Paid
in Inspected Tobacco might be Discharged by Debtors with a De-
duction of One fourth part of the Debt. The Inspection Law is so
Clear in this matter that it will admit of no Doubt, and we can Truely
say that had not such a Provision been Agreed to by all Branches
of the Legislative Body no such Law would have been made But we
find that Several Creditors in order to evade that Part of the Law
have Compelled many Poor unthinking People to enter into new
Contracts for their Debts merely to evade the Deduction given by
Law and therefore to prevent the Evil which must ensue from such
Evasive and Pernicious Practices and to fulfill the real and honest