36 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 22-Mar. 26, 1755.

U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
March 19

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

March 20

Thursday Morning 20 March 1755
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday

Read the Second time the Bill Entituled an Act for preventing
the Importation of German and French Papists and Popish Priests
and Jesuits into this Province and of Irish Papists by way of Pensil-
vania or the Government of Newcastle Kent and Sussex on Dela-
ware and will Pass with the following Amendments In the I 7th
Line of the first Page instead of five pounds put fifty Shillings in
18.^th Line put fifty pounds, instead of two hundred in 19th Line put
Ten pounds instead of Twenty pounds, in Twenty Line instead of
four put one in 21. ^st Line instead of the words, one half, put, one
third, in the last line of the same Page instead of the words, and the
other half thereof, put, the third to the Right honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Province for the Support of Government, and
one third, leave out after the word, Allowed, in the 3^d Line of the
Second Page to the word, aforesaid, in the 16.^th Line of the Same
Page, and insert the following And be it further Enacted by the
Authority af.^d that the Governor or Commander in Chief for the
time being shall and is hereby Authorized to Nominate and appoint
some fit Person who understands the German or French Languages
to Serve as a Clerk to the said Naval Officer and who shall and
is hereby Required to attend the Office of the said Naval Officer at
the time of the Entry of any Ship or Vessel having German or
French Passangers on Board and shall in the presence of the said
Naval Officer or his Deputy Administer the Several Oaths to the
Government to each Passanger or Servant Imported as af.^d and
Cause them and each of them to Signe the Test and Oath of Abjura-
tion to be kept by him for that Purpose except Children under the
Age of 14 Years to be Adjudged at the discretion of the same Naval
Officer and the Same Clerk shall and he is hereby required before

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he takes upon him the Execution of the said Office to go before Some
Provincial or County Magistrate and take the Several Oaths to the
Government, Subscribe the Test and Oath of Abjuration, and take
an oath well and truly to Administer the Several Oaths to the Gov-
ernment to the Several German or French Passengers or Servants
Imported at the Port and City of Annapolis and Cause them to Sign