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Sioussat's The English Statutes in Maryland, 1903
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38 The English Statutes in Maryland. [503
another veto followed." In view of this third dissent in this
one matter, and not to speak of the numerous negatives to
other laws of the same period, we are not surprised to find
the Lower House passing a resolution against the use of this
power.'" a power which, we must remember, the Crown had
ceased for some time to employ in England. This had no
effect, apparently, upon the Proprietor, for a fourth attempt
to find a form agreeable to him met with the same treatment:.
This was an Act of 1730, in which the words ran " according
to the reasonable customs of England and the laws and stat-
utes thereof as are or shall hereafter be enacted agreeable to
the usage or constitution of this Province." He was specially
urged by both Houses to assent to this, but to no avail.''
Meanwhile had appeared from the press the most impor-
tant of all the writings which the controversy drew forth.
This was Dulany's " The Right of the Inhabitants of Mary-
land to the Benefit of the English Laws," and to it we shall
hereafter devote separate consideration. A comparison of
dates makes it not improbable that to the agitation of these
years, and, perhaps, to the influence of Dulany's pamphlet, is
to be ascribed the somewhat more liberal opinion of Yorke.
in 1729. This, as we noted in the preceding chapter, contains
in its phrases a distinct air of concession.
The next year brought to the government the good sense of
Samuel Ogle. No wonder that he wrote home to tell Lord
Baltimore that the country was " as hot as possible about the
English statutes and the judges' oath,"2' or that he recom-
mended giving places to " Bodeley and Delanv." 2B Before
this, the uncertainty in the matter had led to great confusion,
some officers taking one form of oath,.others another. Now
some refused to take any." In 1731 another oath bill was
22 L. H. J. MS. 1728. passim. Bacon. Laws of Md.. Act of 1728,
ch. 1.
23 L. H.J. MS. 1729, Aug. 5.
24 Ibid. 17.30, passim. Bacon. Laws of Md.. Act of 1730, ch. i.
25 Calvert Papers (printed). Vol. II,, p. 82.
26 Ibid. p, 85.
27 Mereness. p. 276.

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