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part of Worcester Parish in Worcester County and building a Chap-
pel of Ease thereon thus Endorsed
By the Lower house of Assembly1^st July 1755
Read the first and second time by an Especial Order & will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Ct Lo Ho

Read the first time in this house and Ordered to lye on the Table
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Read the Second time the Bill Entituled an Act for granting a
further Supply towards his Majestys Service and will not Pass

U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
July i

Sent to the Lower house with the following Message by Benedict
Calvert Esquire
By the Upper house of Assembly 1^st July 1755.
Gentlemen
The Bill herewith returned, proposes to take £5000 out of the
Paper Currency Office which is to be replaced and repaid to the
Commissioners of that Office in Bills of Credit by Several duties
and Imposts therein mentioned, and also by the Money arising on
Ordinary Licences the appropriation of which is a disputable Matter
As there has been no Experience of the annual Amount of Several
of those Duties We apprehend it to be very precarious and uncertain ;
and we do not find by any Computation we can make, that the Sum
proposed to be taken out of the Office by this Bill, can, be repaid and
Replaced into it during the Subsistance of that Office, and in such
Case there is not any Provision made in the Bill for Supplying that
deficiency. These, We think, are Material Defects and such as We
cannot get over There are other objections to the Bill which we
conceive are not necessary to be particularized here, in as much as
if these objections were Removed so as to Answer the Ends and
purposes proposed by it We may Possibly agree upon & reconcile
those by Proper Amendments; But we cannot pass it under the pres-
ent Defects and leave that to be Supplied by the Interposition of a
future Assembly, which can and ought to be done now. We therefore
earnestly intreat you/when the call for a Supply towards the Sup-
port of his Majestys just Rights and our own Safety are so very
Pressing/to fall upon Some Expedient to render the Bill more per-
fect, and give us an Opportunity of Concurring with you in testifying
our Zeal for his Majestys Service & the Security of Our fellow
Subjects
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.^o

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

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