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Pamphlet
Md. Hist.
Soc., "Three
Bills which
did not pass,
1760"
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The Indorsements on the aforegoing Bill are as follow :
By the Lower House of Assembly, 4th April, 1760.
Read the first Time, and ordered to lie on the Table.
Signed per Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.
By the Lower House of Assembly, 4th April, 1760.
Read the second Time by an especial Order, and will Pass.
Signed per Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.
By the Upper House of Assembly, 5 April, 1760.
Read the first Time, and ordered to lie on the Table.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
By the Upper House of Assembly, 7 April, 1760.
Read the second Time, and will not Pass.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
By the Upper House of Assembly, April 7, 1760.
Gentlemen,
We are equally desirous with yourselves to afford all reasonable
Relief to the People of this Province in general, and the Land-
Holders in particular, upon whom a very heavy Tax, by the great
Deficiency of the Funds for sinking the 40,000 1. must in a short
Time be laid, unless by some Bill to be passed this Session, including
a larger Number of Contributors, that Inconvenience shall be ob-
viated; but at the same Time that we are strongly inclined to relieve
Individuals, we think it incumbent upon us to pay all the Regard to
Public Faith, and consequently to Public Credit, which these very
important Points deserve, and our present Circumstances will allow.
In these Respects, as well as in some other, the Bill herewith re-
turned with a Negative appears to us to be defective; but we are
not without Hope for receiving another upon a Plan more con-
sistent, and less liable to Objections, and have therefore taken the
Liberty of recommending to your Consideration a Tax long ex-
perienced in this Province, and more equal, and less grievous to the
People than a Land-Tax, together with the Appropriation, and
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Continuance of the Funds, mentioned in the Bill to have answered,
or almost answered, the Ends for which they were created; The
annual Produce whereof in future may be nearly estimated on a
Review of the annual Income they have hitherto produced; and as
we are informed that the Deficiency, which by the Law as it now
stands, is to be made good by a Land-Tax only, has been calculated
at about 26,000 1. we conceive this Sum may be discharged by these
Means in Two Years from this Time, without any considerable
Inconvenience, or just Cause of Complaint. The Public Faith and
Credit must be preserved at all Events, and should you therefore
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