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Saturday Morning 26.^th June 1773.
The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as Yesterday.
Mess.^rs Smallwood and Sim bring up a Bill, entitled "An Act for
more effectually preventing the buying and Selling of Offices." Read
the first and second Time in the Lower House and will Pass, which
was Read the first Time in this House and Ordered to lie on the
Table.
Mess.^rs Ward and Tolley bring up the two following Engrossed
Bills, Read and assented to by the Lower House of Assembly.
A Bill entitled "An Act to continue the Acts therein mentioned."
A Bill entitled "An Act reviving and continuing an Act entitled
An Act for amending and repairing the public Roads in Baltimore
County."
These two Bills were Read and assented to by this House, and
Ordered to be so Subscribed, the Paper Bills so Endorsed are sent
to the Lower House by Daniel Dulany Esquire
Read the first Time, in this House the Bill entitled "An Act for
the Establishment of Religious Worship in this Province for the
Maintenance of the Clergy and for other Purposes therein men-
tioned" and will not Pass, so Endorsed and sent to the Lower House
by G Steuart Esq together with the following Message.
By the Upper House of Assembly 26.^th June 1773.
Gentlemen

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
June 26

We think it ought to be adopted "in all well grounded Christian
States" as an inviolable Principle to preserve religiously the Publick
Faith, and to observe with the utmost Strictness the Duties of
Justice, and have therefore returned with our Negative Your Bill
to which you have given the Title "An Act for the Establishment
of Religious Worship in this Province, for the Maintenance of the
Clergy, and other Purposes therein mentioned" for we are of Opin-
ion that the Act of Assembly entitled "An Act for the Establishment
of religious Worship in this Province, according to the Church of
England, and for the Maintenance of Ministers," passed at a Session
of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis in this Prov-
ince of Maryland, on the sixteenth Day of March Seventeen hundred
and one-two, was enacted by Legal and constitutional Authority
and therefore is in full Force and Virtue.
If upon a dispassionate and mature Consideration you shou'd
not deem it improper, at this Time when Suits are depending, on
the Validity of the Act of 1701-2, for either, or both Houses to
Publish their Sentiments on the Question, as they may tend to
influence the Determinations of the Courts, we shall be ready to
enter into a full Discussion of the Subject, on your Communication

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