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For Three,
Hammond, M. Tilghman, E. Tilghman,
Gassaway, Murdock, Beall.
Car roll, Fraser, 10
Jenifer, Lloyd,
M.r Carroll, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and delivers
to M.r Speaker a Bill entituled, An Act for issuing Writs of Replevin
out of the County Courts of this Province; which was read the first
and second Time by an especial Order, and will pass.
An ingrossed Bill entituled, An Act continuing an Act entituled,
An Act directing the Manner of punishing Fornication, &c. and an
ingrossed Bill entituled, An Act for Quieting the Differences that
have arisen, and may hereafter arise, between the Inhabitants of
this Province and the several Indian Nations, &c. were severally
read and assented to, and, with the Paper Bills thereof, and the
Bill entituled, An Act for issuing Writs of Replevin, &c. were sent
to the Upper House by Capt. Stoddert and M.r Williamson.
The following Message, viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, May 1, 1756.
May it please your Honours,
It is no small Concern to us to be obliged to refuse allowing
Part of the Governor's Account for House-Rent: We are of
Opinion the Circumstances of our Country will not afford paying
more than Eighty Pounds per Annum, for House-Rent for a Gov-
ernor; and as a higher Rent never has been allowed, therefore we
cannot exceed that Sum.
It is with equal Concern we are forced to postpone the Allowance
of Twenty-three Pistoles to his Excellency, for Transcribing the
Acts of Assembly now in Force (as it is said), and Transmitting
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Liber No. 48
May 1
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the same, agreeable to his Majesty's Order in Council. Had we, in
Consequence of our Address to his Excellency for that Purpose, re-
ceived a List of the Titles of those Laws, we should readily have
allowed for the Transcribing such as we were of Opinion were in
Force; but till we know what Laws were Transmitted, as Laws in
Force within this Province, we cannot think ourselves justifiable in
making any Allowance on that Account.
The Particulars of that Part of the Governor's Account for
Expresses, which we disallowed, being now laid before us, we have
allowed, except £1:2:6 for Expresses to the Gentlemen of the Coun-
cil, which, we think, ought to have been delivered to the Sheriffs, who
are paid for conveying Public Letters.
We shall never allow any Thing for publishing Assents to Laws,
as we apprehend, no Law that has passed the several Branches of the
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