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Assembly Proceedings, October—November 1683. 575
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Lower house [of Assembly] October the 26th 1683:
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L. H. Journal
Original.
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Answere to
the message
vppr house
Concerning the
bill of Eleccons,
and the bill
for Leavying
Warr.
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in [Answere] to tne message sen[t in Writing
to this house th]is prsent day wherein the vppr
[house de]sires the Dispa[tch of the Bill] for Ad-
vancement of Trade wch till do[ne his Lordship]
Cannot soe well give Answere to this house to
their message fof the 24th instant] Toutching the
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Nominateing places where Assemblyes the [rrovinciall Court
and O]ffices are to be kept, This house doe say that this house
did the 22th [Instant send] to the vpper house Two bills
passed this house, To wch this house desired the Concurrence
of the vpper house soe that they might be ready for his Lopps
Assent, to the same in manner as then drawne, One of them
Entitled An Act Toutching leavying of warr & defraying the
publique Charge of this province, And four dayes haveing
since Interveened this have not yett received any Answere
Toutching the same, The Other bill Directing the manner of
Electing Burgesses &c wch Bill the vppr house have rejected
and Instead thereof have sent a New bill by the vpper house
drawne and Assented too in wch is left out the preamble,
which was In Substance Noe Other then was agreeable to the
preamble of the bill formerly sent from the vpper house to this
house, And hath nothing in it disagreeing from his Lops
Charter and Ordinance.
Wherevpon this house Tooke the sayd bill sent this day
from the vppr house Into their Consideraccon, But Cannot
Concurr with the vppr house in passing the same as now
drawne, but have Caused a new bill for Electing Burgesses to
be drawne, and herewith sent to which this house doth desire
the Assent of the vpper house, As alsoe to the bill Toutching
the Leavying of warr &c & Transmitt the same to this house,
And if this house may be [Assured] his Lop: will Give his
Assent to those Two Bills, This house shall then readily Con-
sent to the passing the bill for Advancement of Trade, which
hath had Its Third Reading in this house and wants nothing
but a vote of this house for its passing to the vppr house for
their Assent to the same, soe tht all the Three bills aforesd may
receive their Virtue, & being by his Lops Assent at one and
the same time, And then this house shall Cherefully proceed
On in the Remaynder of the business before the Two houses
to the ffinnishing the same and a Happy Conclusion of this
Sessions:
Sign'd p Ordr C Boteler Cler &c.
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Act of revi-
ver read the
first time
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Then was read A bill Entitled An Act of Reviver
of the Teporary Lawes The first time
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Ordered that the Clerke of this house Transcribe the
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p. 48
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