The Upper House. 217

The Bill prepared in this house entituled an Act for Naturaliza-
tion brought from the Lower House thus endorsed Mess.^rs Stoddart
and Carroll

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April 8

By the Lower House of Assembly 1^st April 1760
Read the first Time and ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M. Macnemara Cl Lo Ho

By the Lower House of Assembly 8^th April 1760
Read the Second Time and with the amendments herewith sent
will Pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H

By the Lower House of Assembly April 8.^th 1760
Amendments Proposed to the Bill entituled an Act for Naturaliza-
tion, To the Title of the Act Add the following words (Foreign
Protestants), In the last line of the second Page instead of the word
Oath insert the word Oaths, In the fourth line of the third Page after
the word "Wales strike out the word And In the thirteenth line of
the third Page after the word Provincial insert the words or any
County after the word record in the Seventeenth line of the third
page Add the following Clauses towit. Provided always and be it
Enacted by the Authority afs^d that no Person of what quality Con-
dition or place Whatsoever other than and except such of the People
called Quakers and all Foreign Protestants who Conscientiously
scruple the Taking an Oath as shall Quallify themselves and be
Naturalized by the ways and means herein before mentioned shall
be Naturalized by virtue of this Act unless such person shall have
received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper in some Protestant
and reformed Congregation within this Province within three
Months next before his Taking and Subscribing the said Oaths
and making repeating and Subscribing the said Declaration and
shall at the time of his Taking and Subscribing the said Oaths and
making repeating and Subscribing the said Declaration produced
Certificate signed by the person Administering the said Sacrament
and attested by two Credible Witnesses whereof an Entry shall
be made in the Provincial or the County Court of this Province
where the said Oaths shall be so Taken as aforesaid without free
or reward

Provided Also and it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority
aforesaid that nothing in this Act Contained shall Extend or be
Construed to extend to naturalize any person or persons whatsoever
who by Virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the 4^th Year of his
Majestys Reign Entituled an Act to explain a Clause in an Act
made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen Ann
for Naturalizing Foreign Protestants which relates to the Children
of Natural born Subjects of the crown of England or of great

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