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

L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
April 30

ture, when barbarous Savages are Depopulating our Frontier, and
at the Instigation of a perfidious Enemy committing the most horrid
Cruelties, to wave all Formalities and Punctilioes in the Mode of
our Proceedings; and shall very chearfully agree to a free Conference,
not on the Subject-Matter of a Bill sent down with a Negative, as
proposed by your Honours, but on the Subject-Matter of your Ob-
jections to our several Bills, in order to bring about the Passage of the
Bill last sent up; excepting, however, the Tax on Liquors consumed
by Persons not being Retailers, and the Appointment of Sheriffs to
be Collectors of Excise, as provided by the last Bill, being Points from
which we are determined not to depart, and therefore cannot agree
to confer upon. As we cannot doubt your Honours joining us in
this Proposal, we presume, you'll Name your Conferees, and acquaint
us therewith as soon as possible. And now, having agreed to every
probable Expedient (even the most irregular) for bringing about that
desirable End, which we hope is aimed at by us all, we must insist,
that our present Concessions shall not be drawn into Precedent, or
any way construed as derogatory to our ancient and undoubted
Right, in Case of all Bills for granting Aids or Supplies, to direct,
limit, and appoint, in such Bills, the Ends, Purposes, Considerations,
Conditions, Limitations, and Qualifications, of all such Grants, which

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ought not to be changed by the Upper House.
Signed per Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.

Was sent to the Upper House by M.^r Smallwood and Capt. Jenifer.
The House adjourns until the Morrow Morning at 8 of the Clock.

May 1

Saturday Morning, 1^st May, 1756.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Capt. Jordan and M.^r Thomas Reeder have Leave to go home.
On Motion, the Question was put, Whether the Public Debt of this
Province, allowed in the Journal of Accounts, shall be Levied upon
the Taxables by Two or Three equal Assessments Resolved, That
the Publick Debt be collected by Two Equal Assessments.

For Two,

Reeder, Edmondson, Dulany,
Hynson, Edge, Casson,
Williamson, Travers, Bracco,
Hall, Paca, B. Handy,
Reynolds, Govane, Crabb,
Smallwood, Ward, Chapline,
Stoddert, Hawkins, 20