102 Assembly Proceedings, April 1-26, 1684.

Original Journal.

They reti Natural izac- con bills Read and past.

jrne and say they have delivered the same. The bill for Naturalizeing Jacob Seth: read the 3d time by speciall ordr of the house and past in these words (Vizt)

Aprill the 24^th 1684
The Low^r house have Assented.

Signd p Ord^r C Boteler Cl of the Low^r house &c

The bill for Naturalizeing Nicholas Verbraach: read the 3^d
time by Speciall Ord^r and past this house in the same words
as the former.

The Bill for Naturalizeing, Peter Bayard, and Others. Read
the Third time by speciall Ord^r of the house, And past in the
same words as the former;

Then was drawne the following message (viz^t)

Lower house of Assembly Aprill the 24^th 1684

Concerning a fee to Mr Speaker vpon private Acts and an to the Clerkes fee.

Vpon reading the severall Bills of Naturaliza- tion of the severall persones therein named, This house hath Considered, that there hath been vsually payd To the Speaker of the house of Commons in England a Considerable fee vpon The passing any private Act, This house haveing

seriously debated the same, Resolved

That all persons that shall be naturalized, This present ses-
sions of assembly, Doe respectively pay vnto the speaker of
this house The sum of Twelve hundred pounds of Tobacco
for the fees of their Naturalizaccon, And that the like fee be
pd to the Speaker of the Lower house for the future, And
That the Clerkes fee of the Lower house be Three hundred
pounds of Tobacco for Every Naturalizaccon & noe more And
this house desires the Concurrence of the vpp^r house herein.
Signd p Ord^r C Boteler Ck of the Lower house &c

p. 45

Coll Stevens prayes an Amendment of the Supple- mentary Act.

Then Came Coll Stevens from the vpper house and sayes he has Order to Informe this house, That there was Notice given of a mistake in the Act for Advancement of Trade, Concerning a port towne or place of Trade in Wighcocomoco

River in summesett County, which place in the sayd Act is
mentioned to be vpon the land next above the land of the
Orphanes of Charles Ballard whereas the same should have
been mentioned to be vpon a parcell of land Called Lotts
wife or the land w^ch was formerly William Writes, w^ch mis-
take is not Amended in the Supplementary Act, to the great