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

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
November 16

16 November 1753.

Read and assented to by the Lower house of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

Read and Assented to by this house and Ordered to be so
Subscribed

Two Engrossed Bills viz^t The Bill Entituled a Supplementary and
Explanatory 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 a Supplementary Act
to an Act — Entituled an Act to prevent the tumultuous meetings and
other irregularities of Negroes and other Slaves The Bill Entituled
An Act to prevent the Injurying the Navigation to Baltimore Town
and to the Inspecting house at Elk Ridge Landing on Patapsco River
both, thus Subscribed

16 November 1753

Read and Assented to by the Upper house of Assembly
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.
Are Sent to the Lower house by Samuel Chamberlain Esq.^r

A Message from the Lower house with the Journal of Accounts
by Mess." Stoddart and Magruder

By the Lower house of Assembly 16 November 1753
May it Please your Honours.
In Answer to your Message of the 14.^th by the Samuel Chamber-
lain Esq.^r We do agree to allow the late Governor for the Seal to
five Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and Goal delivery
to Cecil County and have accordingly inserted it but cannot consent
to allow for the Seals to fifteen Proclamations relating to his Lord-
ships Assent to the Inspection Law; the publication of his Lordships
assent to our Laws was never yet thought needful for the Validity of
them and we hope never will, therefore We think it highly unreason-
able to Burthen the People for a Service so apparently unnecessary,
The Attendance of the Council of State and the Salary to their
Clerk We cannot think it Reasonable to make any Allowance for.
The Service of that honourable Board is either relative to his Lord-
ships Private affairs or to Matters of Government, in the first Case
'tis plain the People ought not to be burthened, and that they ought
not in the latter will appear equally clear when it is considered that
by many Acts of Assembly of this Province Fines & Forfietures
are Given to his Lordship the Lord Proprietary for Support of
Government and that the Sum of Twelve pence p hogshead on all
Tobacco Exported out of this Province is collected and paid to his
Lordship under an Act expressly giving it for Support of Govern-

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ment; and although we are of Opinion that Act is not now in Force