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Adjourn for two hours to give way to the Committe to Meet
for Drawing up a Law for Defence of the Province—
Upper house mett again according to Adjournment
Present
The Chancellor
The Honourable The Secretary Col Coursey
The Sur General Col Stevens
A Message from the Lower house pr Mr Ennalls and Mr
Dashiel being two Bills and they acquaint this house that the
Members of their house Appointed for the Committee of
Accounts are ready to go out, They return again
Col Tailler being at present an uncertain Member by reason
of his Indisposition Ordered that Col Henry Coursey Ioin
with Col Stevens in Col Taillers room to meet in the said
Committee—
An Act against Divulgers of false News tending to the Dis-
turbance of the Peace and abuse of Magistrates read and
Voted a Second reading and Comparing with the former Law
to Morrow Morning
An Act for the more Speedy bringing to Tryal and Sup-
pressing Criminalls and Limiting their Punishments for certain
Offences when prosecuted in the County Courts read and
Voted a Second reading to Morrow-
Col Lowe is Sent to the Lower House to acquaint them that
Col Tailler being Indisposed this house have appointed Col
Coursey in his room with Col Stevens to Ioin with the Mem-
bers of the Lower house in a Committee for Accounts, and
that this house did desire to know the Names of those Mem-
bers of theirs Appointed for that Purpose—
Col Lowe returns and Reports that they will send Answer
by a Messenger of their own—
A Message from the Lower house by Col Burgess & Iohn
Edmundson Vizt—
Lower house of Assembly Sepr the 2d 1681.
This house have Appointed Col William Burgess Mr Rich-
ard Hall Mr Iohn Edmundson and Mr Bartholomew Ennalls
for the Committee of Accounts and desire that Such Members
of the Upper house as they Please to Appoint may proceed to
Dispatch thereof-
Signed pr Order C Boteler Cl Assistant of the Lower house of
Assembly
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