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Wells, Cap^t John Stansby Cap^t John Waterton M^r John
Sc M^r Richard Woolman M^r John Edmondson M^r Win-
lock Ch M^r William Steevens M^r Roger Woolford
M^r James Dasheil M^r te M^r John Steevens M^r William
fford M^r Bartholomew M^r James ffrisby Cap^t Jonathan
Sybery M^r William Peer Nathaniel Garrat or any
Eighteene of them (whereof the Sp be one) assembled
at the time & place p^rfixed shalbe a howse mons or a
Lower howse of Assembly to all intents and purpo nd
all bills Acts or ord^rs passed by the sayd One and forty Mem-
bers or any Eighteene of them whereof the Speaker

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to be one as aforesayd with
howse, & Enacted
Right hono^ble
lawes of
Seale of as if they
were ad of this
Province

St Maryes 21^th 1678.
The Rule the Deputyes—
Delegates &
It is utyes or Delegates
of this Prov ord^rs following be
observed by the now assembled
and by the Clerke of of Assembly.
First No burgese Deputy or this howse shall use
any Reviling Speeches or name any one by his pp name but
by another signification, (vizt) the Gentleman that spoke last
or the like
2^dly That no one speake above once at a Reading to any bill
without lycense of the Speaker, & if two -psons or more rise
up together the Speaker shall apointe who shall speake first, &
no may interupt another or speake till the other have
ended.
3^dly That no one shall deliver his opinion or speake sitting
to any bill but shall stand up Reverently directing his speech
to the Speaker.
4^thly That every bill proposed to the howse shalbe read three
seu^rall dayes before it be Engrossed & that every
reading one day shalbe intermitted unlesse upon
occasion M^r Speaker w^th the consent of the howse shall
therewith, and then one bill being read twice at one
sufficient as read two seu^rall dayes & times when so entred
Clerkes Journall.
5^thly No one shall come into of Assembly whilst the

howse is sitting with sword or other pon but shall put

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