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Tuesday Morning 21.st December 1773
The House met again according to Adjournment
Present as yesterday
Mess.rs T Wright and Beall bring up the following Engrossed
Bills Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly. Viz.t
A Bill entitled "An Act for the more effectual Preservation of
the Breed of Wild Deer."
A Bill entitled "An Act for the Repair of the Paper Currency
Office." and a Bill entitled "An Act for Emitting Bills of Credit and
applying part thereof." — These Bills were severally Read and As-
sented to by this House and Ordered to be so Subscribed, the Paper
Bills so Endorsed were sent to the Lower House by Benjamin Ogle
Esquire.
Mess:rs Lyles and Key bring up a Bill entitled "An Act for the
Relief of Samuel Dorsey of Ann Arundel County." 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
the Question was put, Whether the said Bill shall pass? Resolved
in the Affirmative, and sent the Bill to the Lower House by Daniel
of Saint Thomas Jenifer Esquire. — Whereupon Daniel Dulany Esq
with the Leave of this House desired that his Protest might be en-
tered, which follows Vizt
Dissentient
1.st Because the Owner of Property having a legal Right to give
hath a legal Right to dispose of it upon what Terms (consistent
with the policy of the Law) He thinks proper, and therefore what-
ever was the Motive of the Testator Caleb Dorsey, in devising a
considerable part of his Estate to his Son Samuel upon the Condi-
tion expressed in his Will a Posteriour Law professedly annulling
the condition which the Testator was indubitably authorized by the
prior general Law to annex to the Devise will by a Retrospective
Operation rescind an Act incident to the Right of Ownership.
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