iviii Introduction.

the latter's answer thereto, and his letter to the Commissioners of the Loan
Office. As the Lower House did not enter all of these letters and papers in
their proceedings, the Governor and Council on July 10, 1761, ordered Jonas
Green, the Provincial printer, to print in pamphlet form these various papers
in full and to distribute them with the journal of the proceedings of the Lower
House. This was done in an eight-page pamphlet under the title: Province of
Maryland. By his Excellency \ the Governor \ and Council \ 10th July 1761. |
Annapolis: Printed by Jonas Green, Printer to the Province, 1761. The cor-
respondence with Bordley and with the Commissioners of the Loan Office,
which the Lower House did not print in its journal, appear in the published
pamphlet, and are reproduced in the Appendix to this volume (pp. 519-522).
All the papers in the Darnall matter also appear in the proceedings of the
Council (Arch. Md. XXXII, 4-15). At this session the Upper House passed a
bill to strengthen the Paper Currency Act of 1733 so as to require Naval
Officers to furnish sufficient bonds to protect the public from losses such as
had been suffered in the Darnall embezzlement, but no action was taken upon
it in the Lower House (p. 423).

No further reference to the Darnall defalcation appears in the proceedings
of the 1761 Assembly, nor is it clear whether the Province ever recovered the
more than £1,000 which was still due to it. Sharpe, writing to Secretary Cecilius
Calvert, May 5, 1761, said that Darnall "has retired to the House of a near
Relation in S^t. Mary's County & I suppose will never venture to appear abroad
again in this Province", because if arrested no one would go on his bail, and
if once imprisoned he would never be released by an act of the Assembly (Arch.
Md. IX, 519). He is said to have been living, when an old man of eighty-five,
in the lodge-house of a convent in France.

The Lower House at this session appointed a special committee to make
inquiry as to the sufficiency of the bonds of the several naval officers of the
Province. It reported on April 28, 1761, that it was unable to find any bonds
in the Secretary's office where office bonds are usually lodged, but on further
inquiry learned that, under the Act of 1751 relating to the bonds of Naval
Officers, these were to be deposited with the Clerk of the Council; and that
upon applying to the Clerk, the committee was informed that as the bonds were
made payable to the Governor, they could not be inspected without orders
from him, and that since then the clerk of the Council has told the committee
that they might only be inspected upon application from the house itself (pp.
468-469). Nothing further was done about the matter at this session.

ROMAN CATHOLICS.

Although the flames of religious intolerance did not break out as violently,
or ao frequently at these six sessions as they had in the recent past, the
temperature of the smouldering fires was still high, as is shown by the pro-
ceedings of both houses. The determination of the Lower House to penalize
Roman Catholics was brought out by its insistence at the November-December
1758 session, by a vote of 31 to 7, to impose upon them in the Supply or Assess-
ment bills, a double tax on their lands (p. 102), and by its insistence at