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made at the late Convention, if you should think proper to agree to
it, would guard against these inconvenient Consequences of your
Opinion, should the proper, regular, legal Authority determine the
Act for the Establishment of Religious Worship, &c. to be in full
Force, and the proposed Alternative give a Prospect of great Relief
to the Planters. Many, at least Nine Vacancies by the Death and
Removal of Ministers, have happened since October Session, 1771,
when this Alternative on their Death, or Removal, was first proposed,
and, upon the happening of such Events hereafter, the Makers of
Tobacco may regret their not being allowed to pay in Tobacco or
Money, at the easy Rate of Four Shillings. As a Law, (the Claim
of the Clergy to merchantable Tobacco being considered) calculated
merely for the Regulation of this Staple, and to ascertain its mer-
chantable Quality, may prove to be inconvenient, so we have pro-
posed a Duration for Three Years only.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho.
Which said Message and Amendments were severally read the first
Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
The House adjourns till To-morrow Morning 9 o'clock.
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Votes and
Proceedings
of the Lower
House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Nov. 25
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FRIDAY November 26, 1773.
THE House met. All Members present as on Yesterday. The
Proceedings of Yesterday were read.
The Message brought from the Upper House Yesterday, accom-
panying the Inspection Bill, and the Amendments proposed, were
severally read a Second Time, and the Amendments were agree to,
and the Bill passed for ingrossing.
Mr. Funk, being unwell, hath Leave of Absence.
The House adjourns till 3 o'Clock
POST MERIDIEM.
The House met.
John Ridout, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker a Petition of sundry subscribing Inhabitants of Baltimore
County, praying that an Act may pass similar to the Act passed
in the Year 1768, for the Relief of the Poor in that County. And
further praying, that a Sum of Money not less than Four Thousand
Pounds Current Money may be appropriated to the Purpose of
building and erecting an Alms and Work-House in the said County.
And also, praying that the said Sum may be paid and advanced by
the Commissioners or Trustees of the Paper Currency Office, out
of the Interest Money or any other Money that may come to their
Hands, and that the said Money be repaid to the Public, with In-
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