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us upon Such Niceties to the great Delay and Deferring the
Publick and Urgent Affairs of the Province for which we were
Conveened, especially by the Incerting a Clause of his Lord-
ships Charter which we always have, do now and always shall
own and then left out the Substance of Our Address to his
Lordship and which his Lordship did fully Promise and Con-
descend to Our Speaker upon full Consideration whereof this
house do Unanimously Vote that they will stand to and not
Recede from those Amendments Sent on Satturday night last
having thereby made all the Condescenttons they can without
Apparent Violating their Priviledges and therein hope the con-
currence of the Upper house—
Signed pr Order of the House
C Boteler Cl Assistant to the Lower house of Assembly.
Upper house August the 22d 1681
This house in Answer to the Paper brought from the Lower
house by Col Wells &t Do say that his Lordship (as they are
well assured) did not Disassent to the former Law which
Obliges every County to four Delegates upon Mere Niceties
that the Law last Sent down will Sufficiently Secure the Man-
ner of holding future Assemblies which his Lordship and this
house thought and are well assured is most for the Satisfaction
of the People, that his Lordship did only Promise to pass the
Act as to the Number now Settled and to cause to be Elected
Delegates to make the Number four for each County pro hac
Vice tantum Provided the Lower house would Enter it upon
their Iournall as a favour done them but never Consented to
give them Satisfaction in any other part of their Address which
aimed at things wholly new and unheard of in this Province,
and in which the Upper house cannot Concurr with the Lower
house— Signed pr Order
pr J LL Clke of the Assembly—
Sent to the Lower house by Col Taillor and Col Darnell who
having Delivered the Same return again into this house
Henry Ward Pet: praying relief against an Act of Assembly
made against him Anno 1676: Alleadging that he had been
therein Condemned unheard Prayeth Liberty of making his
lust Defence and that the said Act may be Repealed which
was thus Subscribd
The Petitioner being a Member of the Lower house and the
Crime then Charged upon him being Examined and Con-
demned there, the Same lyes not before this house but Prop-
erly belongs to the Lower House to Purge the Petitioner &
give him Relief
Adjourn to Vansweringens
Where they mett as before—
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