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be invaded, diminished or even regulated by any thing this Province
can do
As to the Tax on Tenants for Life
My Lord will leave this to be settled by the two Houses
As to the Tax on uncultivated Lands
This seems to me a very unreasonable Tax, and ought to be
resisted by the Proprietary because it seems principally to be at his
Estates.
As to Tax on Plate and ready Money
My Lord has Nothing to do with this
As to the Tax on the Governor :
This is rather an uncivil than an unjust Tax and therefore the
Upper House would do well to Oppose it as far as they may in
reason
Having given my sense upon each of the Objections so far as
they have been Taken up and maintained by the Upper House in
the Margin of that part of the Case, I shall only add here a General
peice of Advice to Lord Baltimore; that in this Disposition of the
Lower House to Assume to themselves any priviledge which the
English House of Commons enjoy here his Lordship should resist
all such Attempts where they are unreasonable with firmness and
should never Allow any Encroachment to be Established upon the
weight of that adgument singly; for I am satisfiad neither the
Crown nor the parliament will ever suffer these Assemblies to erect
themselves into the power and authority of the British House of
Commons
C; Pratt
Mess.rs Murdock and King attend with Mr George Frasier a
member Elected for Prince Georges County to see him qualified
who takes the Oaths to the Government Appointed to be Taken by
Act of Assembly repeat and Subscribe the Abjuration and Test and
then withdrew.
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