130 Assembly Proceedings, March 17-April 21, 1762.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
April 15

desired, than from the carrying into Execution the System we have
adopted. To conclude your Message, your Honours recommend a
Mode of Taxation for raising a Sum of Money, adequate to the
Purposes of Levying, Cloathing and Paying, the Four Hundred
Men proposed to be raised (by which you also impliedly recommend
to desert the Public Faith of the Province, at least for the present)
some such simple Mode of Taxation as hath been heretofore pur-
sued in this Province: We doubt not but any such simple Mode of
Taxation as would leave the Proprietary Estate, and the great Unices,
either totally untouched, or very complaisantly handled, would be
very agreeable to your Honours. Upon the Whole, as we have sent
your Honours a Bill for his Majesty's Service, the most suitable,
in our Opinion, to the Circumstances of our Constituents, attended
with a Request to point out your Objections to it, and as you have
Rejected it without making any in particular, which is little more
than affirming it to be a bad Bill because it is so, we cannot but
consider ourselves as having discharged our Duty to our Sovereign
and our Constituents; and if his Majesty's Requisitions, which have
occasioned our Meeting, are not complied with, let those answer for
it, who will not consent to raising the necessary Supplies, when the
most suitable Means for doing it, are offered them.
Signed p Order, J. A. Thomas, Cl. Lo. Ho.

Which was Read the first Time, and Ordered to lie on the Table.
The House adjourns till the Morrow Morning 9 of the Clock.

April 16

Friday, April 16, 1762.

The House met according to Adjournment: The Members were
called, and all appeared as Yesterday. The Proceedings were Read.
Mr. Waring appears in the House.
The Report from the Committee appointed to examine into the
Facts set forth in the Petition of William and Mary Clajon, was
Read the second Time, and the House concurs therewith; and Leave
was given to bring in a Bill accordingly.
Mr. Ringgold brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, a Bill, en-
tituled, An Act to establish a Market, at the Market-House in
Chester-Town, Kent County, and for the Regulation of the said
Market; A Bill, entituled, An Act to augment the Salaries of the In-
spectors at Elk-Ridge Landing Warehouse, in Anne-Arundel County,
and for other purposes therein mentioned were severally read the
first time and ordered to lie on the table.

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The Message to the Upper House was Read the second Time;
and the Question was put, That this House do Concur therewith.
Resolved in the Affirmative.