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Your Amendments of Page 20. Sect.^ns 83, 84, 85, 87, as to the
Alterations of time depending upon the same Reason as those on
page 28.^th Sect.ⁿ 80, we of Course Object to.
Your Amendment of pages 41, 42, Sectⁿ 119, We oppose for the
reasons Objected to your Remark on page 9 Sect.^ns 29, & 30 your
Amendment of page 43, Sect.ⁿ 125, we cannot agree to: by the pro-
posed alteration, in this part, the Monies therein mentioned, are made
to discharge just the same quantities of Tobacco they do as the Law
now Stands, and in that respect works no real difference, but being
Confined to the discharge of Tobacco Claims only, the people will
lose the Advantage they now have of paying, not only those
Tobacco Claims, but their Inspection expences, with those Species
of money, and of Course, your amendment is apparently to their
prejudice, We are totally at a loss to conceive upon what principles
your Honours can expect we should come into a Change of all
the Expences of executing the Inspection Law, and of the Alterna-
tive given to those who do not make Tobacco, from Current Money
to Sterling

The people of this Province do not, without great difficulty,
procure enough of that Species of Money to discharge their quit
Rents, and yet, your proposals in this respect, would increase that
difficulty on those who make Tobacco, by adding to their Sterling
Engagements, and would give those who do not make Tobacco, the
Shadow, rather than the reality of an Alternative, perhaps if we
could happily light upon the reasons which induced your honours
to think them Amendments proper, we might change our present
Sentiments, but as they are really quite beyond our Comprehension
and the Law as it Stands in this respect is universally Satisfactory
to the People, we cannot consent to an alteration so prejudicial in
our Opinions to the Interest of those we represent your proposal to
Abolish the 72. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, & 138, Sections, which
provide for the reduction of Old Tobacco debts and against the
Crafts & Subtelties of those who have fallen upon Measures to
evade it we cannot adopt because we are well Convinced that there
are many of those debts. Still in being tho under the Cover of
Oppressive Changes into Money: and we doubt not but your Hon-
ours when satisfied of a bare probability of the fact, will readily
Contribute your aid to the relief of those poor people who have

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Oct. 25

been unwarily drawn in, to Submit to evasions so vile and dishonest,
the Clauses you Object to can work no Injury to the honest Creditor,
but the Omission of them may greatly affect the injured Debtor,
and this Consideration we assume ourselves will be a Motive Suffi-
cient to induce you to decline insisting upon the proposed Alteration.
In the Course of your Deliberations on the Subject of a new In-
spection Law some Alterations and Amendments of the Old have
occurred to us which we now lay before your Honours for your

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