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vincial or the County Court of this Province, where the said Oaths
shall be so taken, as aforesaid, without Fee 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 fourth Year
of his Majesty's Reign (entituled, An Act to explain a Clause in an
Act made in the seventh Year of the Reign of her late Majesty
Queen Anne, for Naturalizing foreign Protestants, which relates to
the Children of natural born Subjects of the Crown of England,
or of Great-Britain) are declared and enacted not to be entitled to
the Benefit of the said Act of the seventh Year of her said late
Majesty's Reign; but that all such Persons shall be and remain in
the same State, Plight and Condition, to all Intents, Constructions
and Purposes whatsoever, as they would have been in if this Act
had never been made; any Thing herein contained to the contrary,
in any wise, notwithstanding.
Provided also, and be it likewise Enacted by the Authority, Advice,
and Consent aforesaid, That nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued, deemed, or taken, to secure or make valid the Estate, Right
or Title of any Person or Persons, being a Papist or Papists, or
reputed so to be, or of any Romish or Jesuitical Priest or Priests, or
Persons reputed so to be, of, in or to, any Lands, Tenements, or
Hereditaments, that he, she or they, now is, are or shall be, in
Possession of, or do or hereafter shall claim any Estate in, or Right
or Title to; but that the Estate, Right or Title of every such Person
or Persons, being a Papist or Papists, or reputed so to be, or Romish
or Jesuitical Priest or Priests, or Persons reputed so to be, shall
remain and continue in the same Plight, State and Condition, to all
Intents and Purposes, which it would have been had this Act never
been made; any Thing herein before cantained to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Signed p Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.

L. H. J.

Liber No. 51
April g

The Petition of the Planters and Merchants, in Behalf of them-
selves and others, was Read the second Time, and Referred to the
Consideration of the next Assembly.

The House adjourns till the Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.

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Thursday, April 10, 1760.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Mr. King appeared in the House.
Capt. Lee hath Leave of Absence.
On Reading the second Time the Amendments proposed by the
Upper House to the Bill, entituled, An Act for reducing the Interest

April 10