120 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
October 31

Wednesday Morning 31 October 1753
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday

Two Bills from the Lower house by Mess.^rs Edmonson and Gray,
One Ent.^d an Act for Regulating Judicial proceedings, and an Act
for Granting fees to the Several Justices of the County Courts and
for Repealing that part of the Act of Assembly which Grants an
Allowance of Eighty pounds of Tobacco p day to the said Justices ;
thus Endorsed

By the Lower house of Assembly 27 October 1753
Read the first Time and Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H
By the Lower house of Assembly 30 October 1753
Read the second Time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
Read the first Time in this house and Ordered to lye on the Table
A Bill from the Lower house by Mess.^rs Smalwood & Traverse
Ent.^d a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act to enable
the Justices of Charles County to levy a Sum of Tobacco on the
Taxable Inhabitants of Port Tobacco Parish in the said County for
the purposes therein mentioned thus Endorsed
By the Lower house of Assembly 30 October 1753
Read the first and Second time by an Especial Order & will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H
Read the first time in this house and Ordered to lye on the Table
The following Message with the Bill Entituled An Act to License
Hawkers, Pedlars & pettychapmen is Sent to the Lower house by
Samuel Chamberlain Esq.^r

By the Upper house of Assembly 31 October 1753

Gentlemen

p. 449

In Answer to Your Message Sent with the Bill Entituled an Act
to License Hawkers Pedlars and Petty Chapman, We must Observe
to you that the Fines and Forfeitures Arising on the Breach of Penal
Laws are the undoubted Rights of his Lordship the Lord Pro-
prietary for the Support of Government and that they have been
hitherto so Applyed unless in some particular Cases where his Lord-
ship for Special reasons hath condescended to the Application of
them otherwise That in the first Act passed for the purposes men-
tioned in this Bill the License Money Fines and forfeitures were to
his Lordship and we See no Reason for any Alteration at this
Time — For although We agree with you as to the Advantages of
Learning yet under the Circumstances of the Schools Established