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with respect to the present Incumbents, and make a Provision, giving
an Alternative to all Persons to Pay the Clergy in Tobacco or Money
at the rate of four Shillings common Money for every Taxable in
each Parish, on the Death or Removal of the present Incumbent,
and also to include the Officers and Lawyers according to the Regu-
lation of the late Inspection Act, with this Difference or Variation,
that all Persons may elect to Pay the Fees in Tobacco or Money
after the rate of twelve Shillings and six pence Currency for 100^lb of
Tobacco, we shall be ready to resume the Consideration of the Bill,
and contribute all in our Power towards perfecting and establishing
a Law of so much consequence to the Credit of our Staple of To-
bacco, and to the peace and Tranquillity of this Province.
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

Adjourned until three of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Eodem Die Post Meridiem.
The House met again according to Adjournment.
Present as in the Morning.
Adjourned until to Morrow Morning Ten of the Clock.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Oct. 28
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Friday Morning 29.^th October 1773.
The House met again according to Adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.

Philip Thomas Lee Esq.^r appeared and took his Seat as a Member
of this House.
Adjourned until four of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Oct. 29

His Excellency the Governor, by his Proclamation, bearing date
at the City of Annapolis this Day, Prorogued the present General
Assembly to Tuesday the sixteenth day of November next.
Thus ends this Convention of Assembly, begun and held at the
City of Annapolis, on Wednesday the Thirteenth day of October,
ending the Twenty ninth day of the same Month, in the Third Year
of the Dominion of the Right Honourable Henry Harford Esq.^r
Anno Domini 1773.
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

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