252 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
April 15

That the Clauses obliging the Rent Roll Keepers to make out and
deliver Copies of his Lordships Rent Rolls and Directing his Lord-
ships Receivers of the Quit Rents to Collect the Land Tax we think
should be drawn Requiring the favour of His Lordship to permit
such his private Officers to execute these parts of the Bill and not
positively obliging them to do what in the Nature of their Respective

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Offices they ought not to do without his Lordships Consent and
Approbation. That in Order to encourage Persons to Enlist in the
Service we think it Necessary that a Clause should he inserted in the
Bill that all Persons that shall be Enlisted under the Act to bear
Arms during the Space of Six Months in defence of the Country
shall be excused from the payment of any Tax by this Bill imposed
as well as all Parochial and County Charges for the Term of One
year from the time of such Enlisting or taking up Arms as af.^d
That upon the Rent Roll Keeper and Receiver of the Land Tax
differing on the Settlement of their Accounts we think it will be more
Equitable and Just That such Settlement shall be made with the
Receiver by the Commissioners of the Paper Office as indifferent
Persons than to Conclude the Receiver by the Return of the Rent
Roll keeper That to that Clause obliging the Agent or His Lordships
Receiver General to give an amount of the Exact Quantity of Acres
of Land Contained within His Lordship's Manors and Reserves and
to pay the Tax thereon we think should be added a Clause to make
him a Reasonable Satisfaction for performing the same as it is
impossible for him to Comply with that part of the Bill without
Surveying and laying out many if not all of the said Manors and
Reserves and in many instances Lands Contiguous thereto to Enable
him to ascertain the exact Quantity of Acres. That in the Clause
containing the Act of Assembly Entituled an Act for His Majestys
Service made at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City
of Annapolis the seventeenth day of July One thousand seven hun-
dred and fifty four relating to the several duties therein mentioned
and also the Several parts of the Acts of Assembly therein mentioned
to be continued after the Purposes in the same Act and the Acts
therein mentioned are fully Answered untill the sum of Forty
Thousand pounds by this Bill proposed to be raised shall be by the
ways and means in this Bill directed be repaid and replaced in the
Office we apprehend the duty on Convicts should be Excepted the
same being as we are advised Contrary to and Repugnant to the
Law of England and therefore cannot be assented to by the Lord
Proprietary as being Contrary to the Charter of the Province. That
the new Emmission of Paper money must be sunk within five years
in Obedience to his Majestys Instructions and as the ways and means
in this Bill for raising a fund for the Repaying and Replaceing the
same money within that time are uncertain such Provision must be
made as will undoubtedly bring in the whole sum of that money in