430 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 2^-May 22, 1756.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
May 18

[And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all and
every Jesuit, Seminary Missionary, or other Spiritual or Ecclesiasti-
cal Person, made or ordained by any Authority, Power, or Juris-
diction, derived, challenged, or pretended, from the Pope or See
of Rome, or that shall profess himself, or otherwise appear to be
such, by preaching and teaching of others to say any Popish Prayers,
by celebrating Mass, granting of Absolution, or using any other of
the Popish Ceremonies and Rites of Worship, who shall appear or
come into this Province, after the first Day of August in this present
Year, shall be deemed and accounted an Incendiary and Disturber
of the public Peace and Safety, and shall forfeit and pay the Sum of
Five Hundred Pounds Current Money; or in Default thereof, shall
be adjudged to suffer perpetual Imprisonment.]
Leave out, from the Word Removal, in the I2th Line of the 13th
Page, to the Word this, in the 5th Line of the I4th Page, and insert
the following Clause, [And be it further Enacted, That all the several
Fines and Forfeitures imposed by this Act, shall be divided into two
equal Parts, whereof one Half shall be paid to the Treasurer of each
respective Shore, for the Use and Support of the Free-Schools in
this Province; the other Half to the Informer, or him, her, or them,
that will sue for the same, in any Court of Record, having Jurisdic-
tion thereof, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein
no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law, to be allowed.]
Signed per Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.

p. 283

By M.^r John Goldsborough and M.^r Hawkins.
The House adjourns until the Morrow Morning at 8 of the
Clock.

May 19

Wednesday Morning, 19^th May, 1756.

The House met according to Adjournment: All the Members
appeared as Yesterday, except M.^r Ward.
Col. Robert Jenckins Henry appeared in the House.
On Reading a second Time the Bill entituled, An Act for Regu-
lating the Militia of this Province, the Question was put, Whether
any Independent Companies shall be mentioned in the said Bill, or
Not Resolved in the Negative.

For the Negative,

J. Reeder, Jenifer, Hawkins,
Hynson, J. Handy, Lloyd,
Hammond, J. Goldsborough, E. Tilghman,
Gassaway, M. Tilghman, Bracco,
Reynolds, Gray, J. Henry,
Smallwood, Addison, Crabb,
Stoddert, Fraser, Beall. 21