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Subscribed the Paper Bill so Endorsed. Sent to the Lower House by
George Steuart Esquire.

Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 10 of the Clock

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 15

Saturday Morning 16.^th of November 1771.
The House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday except Cha.^s Hammond, W. Fitzhugh &
G Plater Esq.^rs

Mess.^rs Wootton and Luckett bring up a Bill entitled "An Act
for the Adjournment and Continuance of Frederick County Court."
Read the first and second Time in the Lower House and will
Pass, which was Read the first and second Time by an especial
Order in this House and will Pass. So Endorsed and sent to the
Lower House by George Steuart Esq

Mess.^rs Beatty and Luckett attend with M.^r Jonathan Hagar a
Member Elected for Frederick County, to see him Qualified who
takes the several Oaths to the Government appointed to be taken
by Act of Assembly Repeats and Subscribes the Oath of Abjuration
and Test, and then withdraws.

Mess.^rs Wootton and Beatty bring up an Engrossed Bill entitled
"An Act for the Adjournment and Continuance of Frederick County
Court." Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
which was Read and Assented to by this House and Ordered to be so
Subscribed, the Paper Bill so Endorsed was Sent to the Lower
House by [George Steuart]
Mess.^rs Johnson and Hall bring up the following Message together
with the Bill entitled "An Act for the further Emission of Bills of
Credit."
By the Lower House of Assembly 16.^th of November 1771.
May it please your Honours

Nov. 16

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 exclu-
sive formation of all Money Bills, as well for the application, and
disposition 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

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