520 Assembly Proceedings, Mar. 28-May 13, 1758.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
May 4
p. 331

of which you have not been pleased to take the least Notice to us, but
on the second Instant you sent us a Bill entitled, An Act for reducing
the Allowances of the' Councillors Deputies & Delegates that shall
serve in the General Assembly the Judges of the Court of Appeals
and the Commissioners of the Provincial and County Courts of this
Province for ascertaining the Allowances of the Clerks and other
Officers of both Houses of Assembly and securing the Independency
of the said Deputies and Delegates, and other Purposes therein men-
tioned, and as we apprehend that the Bill sent from us ought first
to be considered and the Method you have pursued is inconsistent
with all Rules of proceeding we have rejected your Bill upon a View
of the Title of it, and hope that you will not adhere to a Mode of
proceeding which can't but defeat the End we proposed of easing
the good People of this Province.

Signed p. Order J. Ross Cl. Up. Ho.
Adjourned 'till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning

The following Message with the Bill entitled, A supplementary Act
to an Act for granting a Supply of £40000. for his Majesty's Service,
and striking £34015.6.0: thereof in Bills of Credit, and raising a
Fund for sinking the same is sent to the Lower House by Daniel
Dulany Esq.^r
By the Upper House of Assembly May 4.^th 1758.
Gentlemen
We have returned you the Bill, entitled, A supplementary Act to
an Act entituled, An Act for granting a Supply of £40000: with the
Amendments proposed by us, the Propriety whereof we are too well
convinced of to recede from and if you think the Bill to be beneficial
to the Province, and are really unwilling to lose it, we now put it in
your Power to pass it for engrossing.

A Recovery in a summary Way before one Justice of the Peace
of the Penalty of five Pounds may perhaps induce Persons to inform,
but it may also introduce much Partiality and Oppression, and we
think there ought to be great Caution in vesting a single Justice out of
Court from whose Decision there would be no Appeal with the
Power of determining in a summary way

Signed p. Order J Ross Cl : Upp. Ho :
Adjourned 'till to Morrow Morning 10 : o' the Clock.