56 Assembly Proceedings, Nov. 22-Dec. 23, 1758.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
Dec. 20

Anns County Ferdinando Brewer John Butler of Talbot County
William Figgs in Somerset County, Johnathan Seal of St Marys
County John Brown and Richard Beard of Ann Arundell County,
John Randall William Fell, Edward Cooley of Baltimore County
Basil Beckwith, John Gittings Nathaniel Wickham &
Turnbell of Frederick County praying Relief
Read the Petition of the Rector Vestrymen and Church Wardens
and other Parishioners of Port Tobacco Parish in Charles County
praying an Act may pass impowering the Justices of Charles
County to Levy Annually on the Inhabitants of said Parish a Quanty
of Tobacco p Poll for the maintaining an organest referred to the
Consideration of the Lower House and Sent by Daniel Dulany Esq
Upon reading the Second Time the Bill Entituled an Act for the
security of purchasers and others claiming by or from protestant
Aliens the following Amendments were proposed to be made to the
said Bill by Daniel Dulany Esq.^r

Leave out the word protestant in the Title
Leave out the words Being Protestants in the Preamble
Leave out in the first Enacting Clause after the words Aliens the
following words being Protestants at the time of such purchase

Leave out in the second Enacting Clause after the word Aliens
the words being a Protestant or protestants

p. 388

Leave out after the word alien in the 5^th Line of the Last enacting
Clause the words being a Protestant, which being read were not
agreed to by this House and the question being then put whether
the said Bill should pass, resolved in the Negative to which Daniel
Dulany Esq enters the following Protest The question being put
whether the Bill sent up from the Lower House entituled an Act
for the Security of purchasers and others Claiming by or from
protestant Aliens should pass and determined in the negative. To
that negative I Dissent and desire that my Dissent with the following
reasons for it may be entered Vizt

1.^st because Aliens who have settled in this Province, and by their
Labour Industry & Frugallity improved a Wilderness into regular
Fruitfull and well Stocked Plantations, were invited hither by
Proclamations Translated into the German Language and Carefully
Dispersed in Germany and the Faith of this Government which
ought to be religiously observed, hath been in the most solemn and
explecer Terms engaged to them that they should be secure and pro-
tected in the enjoyment of their property

2.^d Because the miscarriage of the Bill upon an apprehension that
his Lordship the Lord propry might Dislike it from the Considera-
tion of his Revenues being affected in respect of his Escheats,
implies a supposition too Derogatory to his Lordships Honour and