394 Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 9, 1692.

Original
Journal.

M^r Brookes Comes from the Gouernor and Councill
severall Bills passed that board, & are as hereafter
M^r Dent & M^r Clarke sent to the Gouerno^r & Councill to
giue them Sattisfaction in a certaine Bill now sent hither
relateing to Negroes & Slaues &c^a as to some Clauses therein
Specifyed.
They Carried likewise with them a bill for Election of Mem-
bers to Serve in the Gen^ll Assembly, haueing receiued one
Reading & passed yesterday.
An Act preventing vexatious & vnnecessary Suites att Law
&c: read and passed the second time
An Act for Recording the Journall of the house of Assembly
read & passed the second time.
An Act for Encouragem^t of Tillage &c: read & passed the
second reading.
An Act ag^t Excessiue Vsury, read & passed the Second
reading.
An Act appointing Court dayes in each respectiue County
wjthin this Province read and passed the Second time.
An Act Limiting the Extent of Attachm^ts & provideing
what shall be Leavyed on Attachm^t & Executions read &
passed the second reading.
The aforesaid Bills were sent to be Engrossed.
In the Act relateing to Servants and Slaues itt is the
Opinion of the house that if the goods bartered for, Exceed
1000^lb tob the party agrieved, besides the ffine in that Act
allowed may bring his Action for Damages.
That Servants Comeing into this Province, whether by
Indenture or oth^rwise, theire Service shall comence from the
Shipps first Anchoring in the Province.
M^r Dent and M^r Clarke returne from the Councill board
with the aforementioned Bill and doe say that every particular
therein is Complyed with, Except the Enslaueing the Woman
dureing life, the which that board desires may be mitigated to
Seaven Years Servitude onely, and was soe done accordingly,
shall make that the Clause
ascertained next
ing.
eading.
Reading and assed 2^d reading.
Negroes & Slaues, read & passed the 3^d time w^th the
amendm^t desired.
An Act restraining the vnreasonable encrease of horses
in this Province read & passed the time, with the Clause
incerted as desired.
The aforesaid Bills were sent to be Engrossed.