The Development of a Residential Qualification for Representatives in Colonial L
The Development of a Residential Qualification for Representatives in Colonial L
Hubert Phillips
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"giveing notice to all the freemen of your said County who have within your said County a freehold of fifty Acres " Proceedings of the Council (1667—1687-88). 77-78. "Archives, Assembly (1678-1683). 60-63. 12 178 MARYLAND of Land or a visible personall Estate of forty pounds starling att least Requiring them to appear att the next County Court ... At which time . . . The said freemen . . . Are hereby Authorized and Required to Elect and Chuse four severall and Sufftcient freemen of your County ...each of them haveing a freehold of fifty Acres of land or a visible personall estate of fifty pounds starling att least within your County. " ^* The governor seems to have taken no action in regard to the law until 1681 when he vetoed it.^^ He gave as his reason that it was too great a burden on each county to send four delegates to the assembly. Evidently realizing that there was a demand in the province for a more definite understand- ing on the question as to the constitution of the assembly he issued a proclamation dated September 6, 1681, reminding all the freemen of Maryland that the charter to the pro- prietor empowered him to call assemblies in whatsoever form he wished.
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