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under a prosecution for the supposed murder of a negro has de-
termined his parishioners, universally, not to hear him; and that the
growth of popery and superstition, are, as may be expected, at-
tendant consequences of such remiss and immoral conduct, but this
information having been given so late, your committee could not
make a full enquiry and examination into the matter; but humbly
conceive it highly proper and necessary, that there should be strict
enquiry into the causes of the apparent decay of the established
religion, and the growth of popery and superstition, not only in that
parish, but the growth of popery and superstition, and an increase
of sects, dissenting from the established church in many other parts
of this province. All which is humbly submitted to the consideration
of your honorable house
Sign'd by order Edward Ford clk
Which is read the first & second time by especial order, and con-
curred with
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
June 22
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M.r Johnson brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker the following
address
To his excellency Horatio Sharpe Esquire,
Governor of Maryland
May it please your excellency
In answer to your message of the sixteenth, we are not surprised
at the grievous complaints of contractors for the transportation of
felons, against the quarantine law, at their denial of notorious facts,
or suppression of a considerable circumstance, the profitable price
at which they generally sell the convicts, nor that they should, when
actuated solely by sordid views, esteem the health of the inhabitants
light in the scale, against a grain of their profit: But we are surprised
at imaginary importance of these people, as well as at the ingratitude
of their attempt to interest the government at home, against a country,
from which they have extracted so much wealth, and at the expence
of so many lives.
We think the quarantine law wants amendment; and are appre-
hensive, that the security of oaths, alone, is not sufficient to effect
the salutary purpose of preventing a continuance of that cruelty, so
long, and so fatally exercised, of distributing, with impunity, the
jail-fever, and other infectious disorders. In compassion also to the
infected, a place for their reception is desirable, and something from
the profits of that trade would justly come into contribution; and
we would willingly now go into a full enquiry and consideration of
this subject, but the impatience, and indeed necessity, of most of our
members, to return home, and secure their approaching harvest, has
obliged us to refer the consideration of this, as well as many other
matters of consequence to the next session of assembly
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