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raise Money, I am sensible of their Condition, And it is my
duty to protect them in a more particular Maner, who are
least Able to help themselves.

At the same time that I am mentioning the hardships on

one side, I should be unjust to the Gentlemen of the Law, If
I did not take notice of that part of the Act which allows the
planter, at his Election to give an Attorney for his Advice
One hundred pounds of Tobacco, or Ten Shillings Currency.
If it be reduced to a Certainty and out of Eithers Choice the
Objection now rais'd will Cease

Gentlemen.
I have nothing more to Offer Except I have Occasion given
in the Course of the proceedings of this Sessions and shall
conclude with recomending dispatch, that the Country may
be at as little Charge as possible And I must further recomend,
in order to put this Law mentioned upon as Equall a footing of
Justice as possible that no Generall or Speciall Retainers be
suffered and that whoever applys first to an Attorney that
Attorney shall be obliged to undertake his Cause, or not be

L. H. J.

Concerned on the Other side This may Create some Cavills

And the Attorney may say he will not be concerned for the
pson applying because his Cause seems unjust But this Ob-
jection is Easily Answered, for certainly One side must be in
the Wrong, And I am apt to think that those who are well
wishers to this Law will be thought so by the practitioners.
Therefore I recommend this to your Consideration. And as
I am determined to Support this Law which is the best that
Ever was Enacted for the Relief of the Inhabitants of this
Province, I must further recomend, that the Attorneys have
a Day set to Qualifie, that the Country may know what Law-
yers will and who will not Conform to the Laws of the
Country
Cha Calvert

Afterwards M^r Speaker with the Rest of the members
Returns to their own House where M^r Speaker Resumes the
Chair and Reports what his Hon^r the Gov^r had before said.
The Rules of the House agreed to and set up accordingly.
M^r Samuell Williamson a member returned Last Sessions
to Serve for Saint Mary's County and M^r Daniell Scott for
Baltemore County being absent last Sessions thro' Indisposi-
tion appear in the House.
Ordered that Col^o Greenfield M^r Waughop and M^r Hamil-
ton go to the Upper House to see them Qualified
They Return and say they see them Qualified, thereupon
they took their places.

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