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Altho' we are not insensible of the Danger which, in Time of War,
we may be liable to, from the Nearness of the French and their allied
Indian Nations; yet the Happiness of Peace, we hope, will be a
Means of present Security. And inasmuch as the People of this
Province receive no Benefit from Traffick, or are provided with suit-
able Presents for those Indians in Alliance with the English; nor
will our Circumstances admit of laying any new Burthens for pro-
curing such; we therefore cannot, consistent with our Duty, increase
any Charge upon our Constituents for that Purpose.
Which was read and assented to, and signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
The House adjourns until Tomorrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
May 22
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Thursday Morning, May 23, 1751.
The House met accrding to Adjournment: The Members were
called, and all appeared as yesterday. The Proceedings were read.
The Bill entituled, An Act for issuing Writs of Replevin, &c.
The Bill entituled, a Supplementary and Explanatory Act to the Act
entituled, An Act for the Ease of the Inhabitants, &c. And the Bill
entituled, An Act to prohibit the raising of Swine in the Town of
Bladensburg, &c. Were severally read the second Time and passed,
and sent to the Upper House by Mr. Stoddert and Capt, Travers.
Col. Hooper, from the Committee of Grievances, delivers to Mr
Speaker the following Report; viz.
By the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice, May 22,
1751.
Your Committee conceive it their Duty to represent to your
Honourable House, that the Growth of Popery within this Province
may (if not timely check'd by some additional Laws, or putting in
Execution the Laws now in Being) become dangerous to his Majes-
ty's Dominion and his Lordship's Government, as it now is mani-
festly prejudicial to the Protestant Interest, and a growing Griev-
ance. That the Papists within this Province, contrary to known
Laws, send their Children to foreign Popish Seminaries, there to be
bred and trained up in the Popish Religion, out of the King's Obe-
dience, and where they imbibe Principles destructive of our Religi-
ous and Civil Rights; many of which return Priests or Jesuits, and
here live together in Societies, propagating with great Industry their
Doctrine. That such, and other Seminary Priests, or Jesuits, so liv-
ing together in Houses of their own, with public Mass-Houses; some
taking upon them to teach Youth, purchase many Tracts of Land and
Plantations, which they pretendedly hold in their own Right, ex-
tending such their Settlements to the back Parts of this Province.
That as Numbers of Germans, French, and other Foreigners, come
into and settle the back and remote Parts, among which are divers
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