228 Assembly Proceedings, November 1-December 20, 1765.

L. H. J.

Liber No. 52
Dec. 12

N.^o 31 A Suppl ^yAct to the Act Entitled An Act for Build^g a
Church in S.^t James's Parish in Ann Arundel County
N.^o 32 An Act for erect^g a New Parish in Kent County called
Chester Parish and for Build^g a Parish Church and enlarg^g a Chapel
of Ease within the said new Parish
were severally read and assented to and sent to the Upper House
with the Paper Bills thereof by M^r Buchanan and Col.^o Lloyd
M.^r Wright brings in and delivers to M^r Speaker a Bill Entitled
an Act for laying out a new and settling and ascertaining the future
Bounds and Limits of S.^t Luke's Christ Church and S.^t John's
Parishes in Queen Ann's County and of S.^t Pauls being partly in
Queen Ann's and Partly in Talbot Co.^ty

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which was read the first Time and Ordered to lye on the Table
The House adjourns 'till two of the Clock Afternoon

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The House met
Samuel Chase Esq.^r brings in the foll^g Message Viz^t
By the Lower House of Assembly Dec.^r 12.^th 1765
May it please your Honours
We have taken into our Consideration your Message of the 9.^th
Instant by Benedict Calvert Esq.^r as also the Report of the Com-
mittee appointed by your Honours to exaie the Proceed.^gs of Coun-
cil together with the Account of Parlars furnished by the late
and present Clerk and although the Services done by the Clk of
the Council may merit some Salary the Quantum of which we shall
not undertake to ascertain yet we are clearly of Opinion that under
the peculiar Circumstances of this Province such Salary ought not
to be inserted in the Journal nor in any Manner paid by a further Tax
upon the people we represent
We are not ignorant that the Gov.^r is assisted in the Administraton
of Gov^rnm^t with the Advice of a Privy Council and we do admit
that an Officer for that purpose may be expedient but as such Officer
is chiefly employed in Acts of Gov^rnment so he ought in Justice to be
paid out of the Monies taken from the People for Support of Govern-
ment Your honours well know that the Provincial Amerciaments
Fines arising by the Common Law and Forfeitures under Acts of
Assembly of the Province granting the same for Support of Govern-
ment amount Annually to a considerable Sum And that under Colour
of an Act of Assembly in the year 1704 there has been collected
for many years a Duty of 1.^s Str p Hh.^d on all Tobos exported out
of this Province to the annual Amount of near £1400 Str which
hath been reced by the Lords Proprietary of this Province and ought
agreeable to the express Directions of that Act to be applied towards
the Support of Government and from any Thing we have ever been
able to learn to the contrary there remains of those Monies un-