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unfair Advantages of unwary Debtors and therefore we think those
Sections ought not to be Omitted in Case the Inspection Law Should
be Re Enacted
Baltimore Warehouse in Worcester County we agree to Suppress
but cannot adopt the Clause you recommend by which the Clergy
and Others may not be Compelled to receive Transfer Notes in pay-
ment after three Months from their date, as it would tend to frustrate
the General design of the Law to make Transfer Notes a kind of
paper Currency
We agree to Insert a Clause to the Same Effect as that proposed by
your Honours relative to the Sale of Old Crop Tobacco, where no
Owner or Proprietor appears; altho these two last being new Re-
marks we are not fully Satisfyed of propriety of making them, after
you had already given us in a former Message what we did imagine
were all the Alterations and amendments you had to propose
Your Honours have Agreed to all the Amendments proposed in
Ours of the 25,^th unless it be the 16,^th 17,^th 18,^th and as you say part
of the 19.^th which is in fact agreed to assure did not design a penalty
upon the Inspector in any Case but where Crop Notes or Receits in
lieu of Transfer were delivered out before the hogsheads were actually
Ready
We well know from long Experience the great Neglect of the
Justices with Respect to the Order and Conveniencies of Warehouses
and therefore Still think that duty will be better Executed by naming
in the Bill the Representatives of the Counties to be joined with them,
and hope you will think our proposal Reasonable agreeing to allow
those Justices and Representatives that attend, the same as for
Justices allowance at the County Courts, & Inspectors half that Sum
As to the 17.^th Amendment we cannot think it unnecessary we
know the Complaints of the people to be many and loud with regard
to the Illegal charge of few by Officers and the Neglect of the Owners
& Proprietors of Warehouses in not keeping the Houses Wharfs
Cranes Prizes & other Conveniences in good Repair, and your Hon-
ours must be well acquainted that there are matters of less Conse-
quence that by the Laws of this Province are Injoyned to be given
in Charge to Grand Jurys

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Oct. 31

By your proposed alteration, with respect to the money, neither
our present Bills of Credit, nor any future Currency of that kind,
will discharge the Officers Fees, Clergys allowance, Publick dues, or
Charges of Inspection, nor will the Gold Coins pay any of the Charges
of Inspection, the Monies, which by your proposal will alone discharge
all those matters, will probably soon be drained away by Remittances
to Europe, and then what is the Alternative of paying Money worth
to those who do not make Tobacco:

This Alternative is one of the most Valuable parts of the Law

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