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Which was Read and Assented to, and Signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
[The above mentioned Resolves are printed on pages 232-234.]
Ordered, That Dr. Steuart and Mr. Earle do acquaint his Excel-
lency the Governor, That this House hath prepared an Address, to
be presented to him, and desires to know when and where he will
receive it. They return and acquaint Mr. Speaker, That his Excel-
lency signified he would receive the Address in Five Minutes Time
in the Conference Chamber.
Ordred, That Mr. Lloyd, with Five more, do present the Address
to the Governor.
Mr. Goldsborough brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, a Bill,
entituled, An Act for the Ease of the Landholders in this Province ;
which was Read the first and second Time by an especial Order, and
will pass; and was sent to the Upper House by Mr. Goldsborough
and Mr. Dorsey.
The following Message, viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, April 9th, 1760.
May it please your Honours,
We return you the Bill, entituled, An Act for Naturalization; but
cannot agree to alter any of our Amendments proposed to the said
Bill, except that the Word and, in the 4th Line of the 3d Page, may
be inserted.
Signed per Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.
Was sent to the Upper House, with the Bill, entituled, An Act for
Naturalization, by Alexander Williamson, Esq; and Mr. Carroll.
In Pursuance of Order of this House the following Bill is here
entered in these words viz.t
An Act for Naturalization.
I. Whereas several Aliens have heretofore transported them-
selves into this Province, and have taken up and patented in their
own Names, several Parcels of Lands and Tenements, some of
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whom still retain the Possession thereof, and others have by Deeds
intended to convey the same to other Persons, and others dying,
have either left them to descend to their Issue or Collaterals, as
their Heirs at Law, or by their Last Wills and Testaments have
devised the same to Strangers; And whereas several Aliens have
likewise purchased Lands which had been before patented to other
Aliens, or natural born Subjects, altho' by the Policy of the Laws of
England, and this Province, such Aliens can neither hold, convey,
devise, nor leave an Heir; And whereas it is highly just and
reasonable that such Aliens, (having shewn a fair and upright
Intention by having pursued the usual and ordinary Methods of
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