Assembly Proceedings, October 1671. 317

And further if the Forces to be sent out from time to time
Exceed not one hundred then no Lieuten^t Colonell or Majors
pay to be Allowed and that the s^d L^t Colonell or Major's pay
be not allowed in case the party that is sent out amount not to
two hundred And that the Officers from time to time to whom
this Pay is allowed be actually in the Field otherwise to have
no pay during the time of their Absence from actuall Service
Signed by order of the house
RoW Ridgley Clk of Lo^r ho^e Ass.

The Upper House Concur with the Lower house in the said
Vote concerning officers pay and Sent M^r Chew to acquaint
them therewith
Then the Upper House received and read the Bill for kill-
ing of wolves & a Bill for marking high Ways and making
the Heads of Rivers Creeks Branches & Swamps passable for
horse & Foot Amended then & Sent down to the Lower
house with this Houses Assent thereon by M^r Chew
Then read an Act Limitting Servants times & past Nemine
Contradicente
Then read the Bill for Stay of Executions after april Court
and passed with this Alteration Viz.
That from and after the publication hereof, & so from and
(be Struck out) and Sent to the Lower House M^r Baker
Brookes therewith —
Then read the Bill prohibiting Importation of Horses &ci
& past
The Bill for high Ways read & past

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Journal
1659-98

The house Adjourned till two of the Clock in
the Afternoon

The House met again Present as in the Morning

Then read the Bill Entituled an Act for the Preservation of
Orphans' Estates. This House Conceive the said Bill insuffi-
cient in these particulars following and do desire that two
Members of each house may this afternoon Consider of the
same and of the said Bill Viz.
1 . First Care must be taken to have the Children Educated
in the Religion of their dec^d Parents
2. The Officer for Probat of Wills & Granting Admcons
must order the Estate till Debts paid and that the Estate be
ready for division amongst the Wife or Orphans & not the
County Court
3. Thirdly It is more probable that the Orphans will have
Negros by preservation of those Jndividual Negroes left by the
Jntestate by means of the Children that may be born of them

p. 213