362 Assembly Proceedings, October 4-November 26, 1763.

L. H. J.

Liber No. 52
Nov. 8

fees, and Other payments under the Inspection Law, of money instead
of Tobacco an alternative in paying in Current money or regulated
Gold or Sterling money payments in Sterling for Tobacco to be as you
proposed, at Seven Shillings and Sixpence Per Cent, and as a Suffi-
ciency of Sterling Specie cannot be had, a Clause to be inserted, to
make the Species of Silver mentioned in the Statute of Anne legal in
payments, & Tenders of Sterling payable by the Act at their Statute
etsimated Sterling Values, as this will not in any wise Contravene
the Statute, will in some measure secure our Commercial Transactions
on their true Bases, prevent our Neighbours from drawing our Specie
from us and render us Secure against Inconveniencies inevitably
attendant on an Increase of our Sterling Engagements, we hope for
your Honours ready Concurrence to this proposition that we may
Speedily frame a Law so desirable to every degree of People in this
Province from its Confessed general Utility.
Signed p Order M. Macnemara Cl. Lo. ho.
Was Sent to the Upper house by M^r Murdock & M^r Johnson.
The house Adjourns till 2, of the Clock

Post Meridiem
The house met according to Adojurnment &c.^a
The Bill Ent^d an Act for the more effectual Securing Orphans
Estates
The Bill Ent.^d a Supplementary Act to the Act Ent.^d An Act
relating to the Standard of English weights & Measures,
And the Bill Ent^d an Additional Supplementary Act to the
Act Ent^d an Act for quieting of possessions Enrolling Conveyances
& Securing the Estates of purchasers were Severally read the 2^d
time & will pass & were sent to the Upper house by M^r Gantt and
Major Waring

p. 166

A Bill Ent,^d an Act to Oblige persons who Officiate as Clerks or
Writers in the Publick Offices to take the Oaths to the Government
and for the better Securing the Publick Records, were read the first
time and Ordered to lye on the Table
Benedict Calvert Esq^r from the Upper house delivers to M^r
Speaker the following Message (Viz^t)
By the Upper house of Assembly Nov^r the 8,^th 1763
Gentlemen
The Impracticability of retaining, in the proposed Bill, the Regula-
tion of money inserted in the present Inspection Law [The message
which begins thus is printed in full in the Upper House journal
pp. 250-251]

p. 167

The house taking into consideration, the amendments proposed by
the Upper house to the bill Ent,^d an Act for the advancement of