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House of Assembly Nov.r 16.th 1771 Read the first and second Time
by an especial Order and will pass.
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho"
Which was read here and passed for ingrossing
The ingrossed Bill N.° 26 read and assented to and sent to the
Upper House with the Paper Bill thereof by M.r Wootton and
M.r Beatty.
M.r Johnson brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker the following
ingrossed Message
By the Lower House of Assembly 16.th November 1771
May it please your Honours
We are much concerned to find that scarce any Money Bill hath
lately been sent to your House to which your Honours have not
proposed an Amendment. This House do and ever will claim as their
inherent undoubted and fundamental Right the sole and exclusive
Formation of all Money Bills as well for the Application and Dis-
position as for the granting and raising of all public Money; nor
will we ever give up or wave or weaken that Right in any Manner.
We should therefore had there been no other Reason, have rejected
the Amendment proposed by Your Honours to the Bill entitled "An
Act for the further Emission of Bills of Credit." But even if this
House had not that undoubted Right we could not have come into
your proposed Amendment it appearing to Us that four Years are a
sufficient Time for the whole Legislature to agree in the Scheme
of establishing a Seminary of Learning that if any Circumstances
should unluckily happen to prevent the Assembly from attending to
this Object the Time might and undoubtedly would be lengthened
and that if unhappily contrary to our Expectation and earnest Wish
an Agreement therein should not within that Time be likely to be
effected it is much more prudent that the present Bill should ex-
plicitly declare what shall be done with the forty two thousand six
hundred and sixty six Dollars and two third Parts of a Dollar than
that we should be now laying the Foundation for another Dispute
to be added to the Number subsisting which are already too many.
We have therefore returned your Honours the Bill in hopes that
these Considerations will induce you to pass it.
Signed by Order Jn.° Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.
Which was read and assented to and sent to the Upper House
with the Bill entitled "An Act for the further Emission of Bills of
Credit" by M.r Johnson and M.r Hall.
M.r Tilghman brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker the following
Report
By the Committee of Elections and Privileges Nov.r 16.th 1771
Your Committee having inspected the Writ directed to the Sheriff
of Frederick County for electing one Deputy and Delegate to serve
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