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An Act directing the Sale of Part of the Lands of Henry Baker,
late of Cecil County, deceased, for the Payment of the Debts of the
said Henry Baker
To the Honourable Speaker.......... £1.. 0..0
To the Clerk...................... 0..10..0
An Act for the Relief of Nehemiah Tilghman and Solomon
Townsend, and to confirm the Contract made between the said
Nehemiah Tilghman and a certain Major Townsend
To the Honourable Speaker.......... £1.. 0..0
To the Clerk...................... 0..10..0
An Act impowering Edward Tilghman, Solomon Wright, and
others, to sell certain Lands devised by Col.o Vincent Lowe, formerly
of Talbot County, to be sold for the Purposes by the said Devise
intended.
To the Honourable Speaker........... £4..0..0
To the Clerk....................... 2..0..0
An Act to remedy the Omission of the Enrollment of a Deed of
Bargain and Sale from Thomas Collier to Thomas Lightfoot, Wil-
liam Lightfoot, Abraham Mitchell, Walter Franklin and Samuel
Franklin.
To the Honourable Speaker .......... £ 4..0..0
To the Clerk....................... 2..0..0
M.r Chase brings in, and delivers to M.r Speaker the following
Message
By the Lower House of Assembly, November 16:th 1770
May it please your Honours,
We return the Bill for the Payment of John Duckett and others,
whereon to indorse your Assent or Negative, according to the estab-
lished Mode of Parliamentary Proceeding; this House will ever
claim, as their inherent, undoubted and fundamental Right, the sole
and exclusive fformation of all Money Bills, as well for the Applica-
tion and Disposition, as for the granting and raising of all publick
Money; a Right so essential to the Liberties and Properties of those
we represent, that we are determined never to give it up, or wa[i]ve or
weaken it in any Manner; and we must observe, that your Proposal
to make M.r Duckett an Allowance in our Journal of Accounts, is
an Infringement of that Right. M.r Duckett's Claim arises from a
Contract made with the Lower House, in November Session, 1766,
for transcribing a Record Book in the Land Office, which contains
Grants and Certificates of some of the most ancient and valuable
Lands in this Province; and which, from the peculiar and uncommon
Damage it then appeared to have sustained, it was deemed necessary
to have immediately copied; and M.r Duckett, in Expectation of an
immediate Payment, undertook the Work for 4.d per Side, to be paid
in Dollars at 7/6; which, had it been done in the Land Office, at 9lb
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Nov. 16
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