440 Assembly Proceedings, February 1674/5.

L. H.
Journal
original

This house taking into ation that the Lawes made
the last Sessions of this Assembly, are not Entred in
of Lawes, and that this house have the Original Coppy und^r
the greate seal Province, and that it might be much
p^rjudice to the Province in general they by any acci-
dent be Defaced or Casually lost — ordered that a message
be his Exclly, to desire that M^r Secry may Cause the
same to be Entred upon Record in the said booke of the body
of Lawes, by Munday morning next and then ma
Retorned to this house in the sd booke.

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M^r Carvile, M^r Dent, Ca- they retorne

Ordered that the Clerke house he ord^rs to
be observed in the -1, and post them up in the house
to morrow
The house morning Ten a clock.

The 1 3^th M^r Henry Adams & Cap^t Philemon
lb.
The Clerk house, and the Rules & ord^rs to
read as followeth —

S^t Maryes Lower house y 13^th 1674.

It is this day ordered by the eses of this Province
now Assembled, that those m ( zt) M^r Thomas Notley
speaker, M^r Robert Carvile William Boarman, M^r
William Hatton M^r Thomas Dent L^t Coll John Jarbo, M^r
Arthure Wright, M^r W^m Bishop, Cap^t William Surges, M^r Cor-
nelius Howard, M^r Robert ffranklyn Majo^r Thomas Brookes,
M^r Richard Hall, M^r William Berry, M^r Henry Adams, M^r
Jgnatius Courseene, M^r John Bowlds, Cap^t George Wells Cap^t
Thomas Todd, M^r Richard Woolman Cap^t Philemon LLoyd,
M^r Joseph Weekes, M^r William Hambleton, Cap^t Paul Marsh,
M^r Roger Woolford; M^r Henry Tripp M^r William fford, M^r
Henry & M^r Abraham Wilde, or any Twelve of them
(whereof M^r Speaker to e) assembled at the time and place
p^rfixed shalbe a house of Comons or Lo house of Assem-
bly, to all intents & purposes, and all bills, acts or o
lied by the said Twenty Nine Members or any Twelve of
them (whereof ker to be one as aforesaid) with the
Consent and approbation of the upp nd Enacted by
the L^t Gen^rall Gou^rno^r of this Province, und^r the Right
Lord Baltemore Proprietary of the same shalbe
Lawes of ce after publica thereof und^r the
greate Seale of this Province -d to all intents and
purposes, as if they were admitted and assented the
Respective freemen of this Province in pson.