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lest this might be giving up too much the Deputy Commissary's
Jurisdiction must be lessened from Estates from £150 to 50 Pounds
whereby the poorer People would be deprived of the Ease and Con-
venience of having this Business done in their own Counties or be
at the Expence and Trouble of procuring Commissions.
We presume that we need urge nothing further to your Honours
to convince you that we ought not to come into your Expedients,
without an attentive Consideration of them.
The Clergy's Dues being the Point next in Consequence permit
us to remark you have not denied the Justice of extending the Al-
ternative to the People to pay 30 per Poll in Tobacco or in Money
on 32. The Governor's Message, of the Propriety of which (and
wherein he seemed himself to doubt) we can say nothing has de-
termined your Action, though it does not seem to have convinced
your Understanding. This very ffact ought to render probable, at
least to you, what we have before asserted with regard to the weight
of the Regulation of Tobacco carrying thro' the former Lower
Houses that of the Officers frees. When we see the solemn Sanction
of Temporary Acts are set up in Opposition to, and are accepted to
bear down the Principles of Justice, we shall be cautious how we
adopt Expedients. A general uniform Establishment of the Clergy
is truly desirable. You must be sensible with Us, that the People
groan under a heavy and unequal Burthen, and as you can get noth-
ing by acting contrarily we hoped for your united Efforts to obtain
them Relief.
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Liber No. 54
Nov. 22
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We are sorry that we are disappointed in those Hopes. The
Clergy are too much connected with Tobacco to leave them out of
the Bill, nor shall we ever take them into it so unequally on the
Tobacco Makers unless we see something more easy to them in Re-
version than four Shillings; but even were we disposed to continue
the old Regulation as to the present Clergy with the Alternative
of 30 Ibs of Tobacco, or four Shillings, as to the future Clergy, we
do not see what should, at the End of seven Years prevent another
Message to your House intimating his Excellency's Resolution to
dissent to a Continuance of such a Regulation and thereby the
present Design of a general, uniform, Establishment of the Clergy
may be entirely defeated.
What has been the Practice or Usage in bringing Suits on In-
spectors Bonds for the Non Payment of Tobacco according to their
Notes or Receipts we do not very well know, and believe few Suits
have been brought on such Bonds.
Persons interested in Bonds taken in his Lordship's Name have
sometimes made Applications to the Governor by Petition to assign
such Bonds to bring Suits thereon. If such Applications are neces-
sary to enable the Person interested to bring or maintain such Suit
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