ixxiv Introduction.

The report concludes as follows: "That the said Jonas Green hath at several
Times Printed long Bills, Records and Papers, inserted in the Journals and
Proceedings of the Lower House of Assembly, too numerous to particularize,
for which he has not received, as your Committee can find, any Reward more
than his yearly Allowance, tho' the Votes and Proceedings have been swelled
to a great Size, by the Insertion of such Bills and other Matters" (pp. 119-120).
On April 19, 1762, the Lower House ordered a committee consisting of Hall,
Johnson, and Graham, to bring in a bill "for the encouragement of Jonas
Green of the City of Annapolis, Printer" (p. 145). A day or two later the
Lower House ordered Green to print the rejected Assessment bill together
with the messages thereon, a specified number of copies to be given by the
printer to the Governor, to each member of both houses, and to the clerks of the
several counties (p. 148), and to print in the next week's Maryland Gazette
the address of the Lower House to the Governor, adopted April 17, in reply
to the Governor's message of March 10 (p. 150). This Assessment bill and
the accompanying messages cover 48 printed pages of this volume (pp.
523.571). A bill entitled, "For the Speedy and Effectual Publication of the
Laws of this Province and for the Encouragement of Jonas Green", etc., was
then introduced and promptly passed by both houses (pp. 35, 150). Green
did indeed need substantial "encouragement". The terms of this bill are of
interest to students of American colonial printing. Green was required to live
in Annapolis, and if he died or left the Province, the act was to become null
and void. He was to print with marginal notes, and bind in a way provided
for in the act, the laws passed at each session of the Assembly, and also the Votes
and Proceedings of the Lower House, copies of these to be given to the
Governor and members of both houses, to the judges and clerks of the several
Provincial and county courts; and three copies of the Votes and Proceedings
were to be kept by the county clerks for the perusal of the inhabitants, obviously
for propaganda purposes on behalf of the Popular party in the Lower House.
The Assessment bill ordered printed had just been rejected for the ninth time
by the upper chamber. He was to be paid annually by each county a sum fixed
in the act, this varying in amount from £30 payable by Baltimore County,
to f ii: 10: by Calvert; the amounts assessed against each county were based
on the number of taxables in each. These payments totalled £279 annually
whether there were one or more sessions in a given year, but if there were
no sessions the total amount he was to receive for that year was reduced to
£210, the money to be paid from certain balances in the Loan Office. Back
payment for the year 1761 was also provided for. The act also recited that
whereas it appears "to the present General Assembly, That the said Jonas Green
hath done divers Services as Printer for this Province, for which he hath not
heretofore had any Allowance", the commissioners of the Loan Office are to
pay him £500 current money in full satisfaction for such services (pp. 196-200).
The printed broadside of Jonas seems to have produced the desired results,
and to have shamed the Assembly into paying its debts to him.

Green soon found that under the terms of the act of 1762 sufficient time
after the close of the session had not been allowed him to print and distribute