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The Members of this House appointed for the Comittee [do]
Retorne
Upon Request of the Captaine Genll to all the members [of]
this House That they would give their Opinions where they
Conceave the Beginning of the Certificate here above [should]
be They declared these Wordes Vizt Beginning at a [mar]ked
Oake upon a Hill by a greate Swampe neare a Cow Path
called Saccaia Path to be the Beginning of the [said] Certifi-
cate & the foregoing wordes to be noe Essential [part] of the
Certificate but only Serving as a direction to find [out] the
Land therein Contained.
The following Resolve of the Lower house delivered by
Captaine Burgesse Vizt Upon Reading of an Act for Expla-
nacon of an Act for Secretaries fees Resolved tht the fee for
the Search be but foure Pounds of tobacco in tht yeare only in
wch the Search is made & if any Search be made for Tenne
yeares then for Search ffourty Pounds of Tobaccoe after the
Rate of 4ls p annum And for all Searches above 10 yeares
noe fee above 40ls of tobaccoe To wch Resolve & Vote of this
house they desire the Concurrence of the Upper house
Signed by Ordr
Robt Ridgeley Clerke
This house have Considered of the sd Resolve & doe Con-
curre wth the Lower house therein
Signed by Ordr
Ri. Boughton Clerke.
The House is Adjourned till 9. of the Clock
to morrow morning.
Saturday 23th of May The House Met
Present as yesterday after the Retorne of the members
from the Comittee
The ffollowing Vote sent downe by Mr Truman Vizt That
the Mattapany & Patuxon Indians doe Continue upon the Land
on wch they now live it being the Quantitie of Seaven Hundred
acres more or lesse according to Pattent & th? the same be
Purchased by the Countrey of the Orphans of Major Jo. Bil-
lingsley to whom it now belongs the sd Billingsley having
formerly Purchased it of the s.d Indians & the Upper house doe
desire the Concurrence of the Lower House in this Vote
Signed by Ordr
Ri. Boughton Clerke
Read in the House a Peticon Exhibited by Certaine Quakers
as followes viz?
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