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

L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
October 29

tinuing an Act intituled, An Act for the Gauge of Barrels for Pork,
&c. an ingrossed Bill intituled, An Act continuing an Act intituled,
An Act to remedy some Evils, &c. and, an ingrossed Bill intituled,
An Act continuing an Act intituled, An Act to prevent the ill Practices
of Sheriffs, &c.

Mr. Charles Goldsborough, from the Committee of Laws, delivers
to Mr. Speaker, an ingrossed Bill intituled, An Act continuing an Act
intituled, A Supplementary Act to the Act intituled, An Act ascer-

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taining the Height of Fences, &c. an ingrossed Bill intituled, An Act
continuing an Act intituled, An Act for relieving the Inhabitants of
this Province from some Aggrievances, &c. an ingrossed Bill inti-
tuled, An Act to prevent Masters of Ships and Vessels from clan-
destinely carrying Servants, &c. out of this Province; and, an
ingrossed Bill intituled, An Act to prevent Persons from Secreting
Flats, Boats, &c.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Col. Hooper, from the Committee of Aggrievances, delivers to
Mr. Speaker, the following Report, viz.
By the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice, October 29,
1753.
Upon the Representation of several Clergymen, and other Gentle-
men of the Church of England, your Committee proceeded to take
the Examinations and Depositions hereunto annexed, and find, That
the Growth of Popery within this Province, is become notorious,
by the public Preaching of Priests, and their perverting many of his
Majesty's Protestant and Loyal Subjects; as also corrupting the
Minds of Youth by teaching School publicly: And that the Papists
not content with sending their own Children to be brought up at
St. Omer's, out of the King's Obedience and Allegiance, contrary to
Law, they endeavour to prevail on a Protestant to do the same. That
it is a common Practice, as well among the Popish Jesuits as other
Papists, to endeavour to and do pervert Servants and Negroes of
Protestants, and keep them under their Command and Authority,
which, upon any Insurrection (from their well known Principles),
may become of dangerous Consequence to his Majesty's Protestant
Subjects in Maryland.
That the insolence of Papists appears in the Deposition of Mr.
Robert Chesly, of St. Mary's County, hereunto annexed.

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Your Committee humbly conceive, That sending Children into
foreign Popish Seminaries for Education, is against Law; and that
endeavouring to and perverting any Subject to the Church of Rome,
is likewise illegal; and that such and other Practices of the Papists