312 Assembly Proceedings, March 2 2- April 11, 1760.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 9
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Place of Trust; any Thing herein before contained to the contrary
thereof, in any wise, notwithstanding.
By the Upper House of Assembly 1^st April 1760.
Read the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table.
Signed p order J Ross Q. Up. Ho.

By the Upper House of Assembly 1^st April 1760.
Read the second time by especial Order and will pass.
Signed p order J Ross Q. Up. Ho.

By the Lower House of Assembly 1^st April 1760.
Read the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table.
Signed p Order MMacnemara 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 MMacnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

By the Lower House of Assembly, April 8th, 1760.
Amendments proposed to the Bill, entituled, An Act for Naturali-
zation.
To the Title of the Act, add the following Words (of 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 of the same Page, after the Word Provincial,
insert the Words (or any County.)
After the Word Records, in the seventeenth Line of the Third
Page add the following Clauses, to wit,
Provided always, and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That no Person, of what Quality, Condition, 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 qualify 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 Lord's Supper in some Protestant and Reformed Congre-
gation within this Province, within three Months next before his

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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, produce a Certificate signed by the
Person administering the said Sacrament, and attested by two
credible Witnesses, whereof an Entry shall be made in the Pro-