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L. H. J.
Liber No. 50
May 8
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Resolved, That the Governor of this Province setting up an
Authority under the Act aforesaid, with the Advice of his Council,
to march the good People of this Province to the Frontiers thereof,
whenever he and they may be apprehensive of a foreign Invasion,
is not warranted by the said Act; and that if such a Power should
be exercised, the People might be Enslaved, by being Marched as
often to, and Compelled to remain as long on, the Frontiers, as the
Governor and his Council might think fit, while their helpless Families
were perishing at home.
Resolved, That that Part of his Excellency's Message of the 5th
Instant, which is in the following Words, " Should the Issue of this
Session be such as I most earnestly hope it will, I shall immediately
Countermand the Orders that have been sent to Captain Brome and
to the Captain of a Company of Militia in Cfecil County; but if you
should unhappily break up again, without making Provision for the
Support of any Troops, either to act under the Command of Brigadier
Forbes, or to be left on our Frontiers, I apprehend the Gentlemen
of the Council will think it absolutely necessary that Two or Three
Companies of Militia should immediately, &c." seems to be calculated
to intimidate and influence the Representatives of the People to agree
to a Bill for making Provision for his Majesty's Service, and the
Defence and Security of this Province, upon a Mode of Taxation
unreasonable, unequal, and grievous to his Majesty's faithful Sub-
jects, and which must, in the End, be destructive of their common
Interest.
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p. 191
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Resolved, That the said Part of his Excellency's Message, so far
as it was intended to serve the Purpose abovementioned, appears to
be a Violation of the Liberty and Freedom that ought to be preserved
in all the Proceedings and Determinations of this House.
Mr. Goldsborough appeared in the House.
Mr. Dulany brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the following
Report viz.
[This report is printed in full in Upper House Journal, pp. 524-
529-]
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p. 196
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N. B. Meverel Lock, Sheriff of St. Mary's County, paid since the
Closing the Books, £14..0..0.
Your Committee further Report, that by the Act, entituled, An
Act for emitting and making Current the Sum of £90,000 Current
Money of Maryland, in Bills of Credit, the Commissioners are im-
powered to lend, etc.
[This report with accompanying letter is printed in full in Upper
House Journal, pp. 533-534-]
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