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first the Vpper howse desire to have these words struck out
of the Act (vizt) that the Leivtenn! Generall & Councell have
power to rayse such & soe many Voluntiers
Secondly that second Clause Provided that the Leivtenn^t
Generall and Councell imploy not more men then their pay be
defrayed w^th the sume of six thousand pounds of tobacco &c.
Thirdly that Clause provided also that noe Serv^t be imployed
on such service without his or their Masters or Mistresses
consent
This last Clause is thought inconvenient because the officer
that accepts of Volunteers for this service cannot tell when
any person offers himselfe as a Voluntier whether he be not a
serv^t Runaway from some Master a farre of and soe may be a

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lyable to be Questioned by this Act, And the Sence of this
howse is that noe serv^t can be a Volunteer as before vrged by
this howse in the paper sent 19 instant.
John: Gittings Clre.

To the hono^ws the Vpper howse
of Assembly

The humble petⁿ of Rob^t Dunn
Sheweth
That aboute 12 yeares since John Hood survayd a parcell
of land (neare to the Wadeing place to the He of Kent on the
Easterne shoare M^r Robert Clarke being then Surveyor The
cert^t of which land was delivered to Philip Calvert Esq^r to the
End he might have a pattent for that land w^ch Certiff itt
seemes through the vnfortunate disturbance of the Province is
lost And the s^d Hood dying one Henry Morgan hath since
survayed the same land & obteyned a pattent for the same soe
outeth the orphan of the sd Hood of his just right
Wherefore he humbly prayes that the sd
Morgans pattent may be null & that the
Orphan of the sd Hood may have pattent
and Enjoye the sd land according to his first
survey
And he shall pray &c.

There appeareing nothing vpon Record which may Evidence
the Clayme of the pet^t to the land this howse thinke itt incon-
venient to question a pattent vnder the scale vpon bare affid^ts
but that notwithstanding the pet^t may have the benefitt of the
Rights vpon which the land was taken vp.
John Gittings Clre

The howse ajourned
till morning

p. 220