642 Appendix.

IV

THE PROPRIETARY'S DISSENT TO AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE
EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES RESIDING BEYOND THE SEAS
AND FOR THE MORE EASY FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGES

[EDITOR'S NOTE. — Although no papers relating to the reasons
which influenced the Proprietary to dissent to this law have been
found in the state Archives or in the Calvert Papers, as such dis-
sents or vetoes were unusual, the formal dissent is reproduced as it
appears in the Proceedings of the Council.]

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Dissents [see also page 641]
F: Baltimore

Council
Proc.
Lib. J. R. &

U. S.
1754

Frederick Absolute Lord & Proprietary of the Provinces of Mary-
land and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore &c. To our Right Trusty
& well Beloved Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Our Lieutenant Governor of
our Province of Maryland and To our Right Trusty and well Be-

pp. 45-46

loved the Upper & Lower Houses of our Assembly there and to all
others in Our said Province of Maryland for the time being Greeting
Whereas at a Sessions begun and held at Annapolis in our said

Lib. T. R. &

U. S.

Province of Maryland on the Second Day of October and ending
the seventeenth day of November in the third year of Our Dominion
over the said Province Annoq Domini 1753. "An Act Entituled an
Act to Empower the Several Courts within this Province to order
Commissions for the Examination of Witnesses residing beyond
Sea and for the more Easy Foreclosure of Mortgages," Passed into
a Law, on due Consideration whereof we have thought fit to Dissent
to the said Act And do hereby declare the said Act Null Void and
of no Effect Given under Our hand & Seal at Arms at London this

p. 46

Tenth day of December in the fourth year of Our Dominion over
the said Province Annoq Domini 1754
[Seal]
By his Lordships Command
Cecil⁸ Calvert Sec^

V

OBSERVATIONS UPON THE LAWS PASSED AT THE MAY, 1754,

SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[EDITOR'S NOTE. — The following brief observations upon the
laws passed at the May, 1754, Session, of the General Assembly,
throws rather more light upon the reasons which brought about
their enactment than do the formal journals of the two houses.]