640 Assembly Proceedings, Mar. 28-May 13, 1758.

L. H.J.
Liber No. 50
May 3

Act for Granting a Supply of £40,000 for his Majesty's Service,
and striking Thirty-four Thousand and Fifteen Pounds Six Shillings
thereof in Bills of Credit, and Raising a Fund for sinking the same ;
and altho' they do not seem to us in any Sort material or necessary,
yet, in order that a Bill so Beneficial to the Province, may not be lost,
we have agreed to the first Four of your Amendments; but cannot
consent to the Mode of Recovery of the Fines and Penalties imposed
by the Bill, as the Method proposed by your Honours will be attended
with considerable Expence and great Delay, discourage Persons that
otherwise might be induced to inform, if the Recoveries could be
obtained with more Ease and Dispatch, and consequently defeat the
End proposed by the Bill.
We hope therefore that your Honours will recede from that
Amendment, which, if you do, the Bill, with the others, will pass our
House for Ingrossing.

Signed p Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.
Was sent to the Upper House by Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Wilson.

The House adjourns till the Morrow Morning at 8 of the Clock.

May 4
p. 129

Thursday, May 4, 1758.

The House met according to Adjournment: The Members were
called, and all appeared as Yesterday. The Proceedings were Read.
Mr. John Hammond Dorsey appeared in the House.
On Motion, the Question was put, That Leave be now given to
bring in a Bill, entituled, An Act to Repeal Part of an Act, entituled,
An Act Repealing Part of an Act, laying an Imposition on Negroes,
and several Sorts of Liquors imported; and also on Irish Servants,
to prevent the Importing too great a Number of Irish Papists into
this Province; and to lay a Duty upon Rum, Spirits, Wine and
Brandy, imported into this Province from Pennsylvania, or the Three
Lower Counties on Delaware, called New-Castle, Kent and Sussex.
Resolved in the Negative.

For the Affirmative,

Reeder, Reynolds, Murdock,
Sothoron, Waggaman, Fraser,
Hammond, Wilson, T. Gantt,
Gassaway, Govane, Bracco,
Carroll, Dulany, Chapline,

J. J. Mackall, Woodward, E. Dorsey. 18

For the Negative,

Williamson, J. H. Dorsey, King,
Hynson, Cockey Deye, Lloyd,
Tilden, Owings, E. Tilghman,