Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 9, 1692. 399

M^r Wynne lays home to them the haynousness of their
Crime, first in being drunck and afterwards in Venting the
Treasonable Song.
Putt to the Vote whether the said psons shall be whipped
for their afd fault or pardon' d vpon their Submission & pene-
tency, by goeing downe on their knees & begg pardon and to
doe the same before the Gou^rno^r and Councill, itt being their
first fact.
Carried by the Majority of Voices, to begg pardon on their
knees w^ch they accordingly did, and the Officer ordered to
Carrye them to the Councill Board to doe the same, and there
vpon to be dismissed paying their ffees.
Ordered that they be bound to their good behaviour, and
that M^r Mason take their Bond with security.
An [Act for the better administration] of Justice in probat
of Wills & granting [Admacons, Recovering of Legacies and]
secureing of filiall Portions, read passed
&c: read & passed the the 50000^{l tob} specifyed in
the second reading.
Nine of the Clock,
these following Memb^rs Viz^t
Then was Saturday.
An Act ag^t Divulgers of false News, read & passed the
third reading w^th amendm^t
An Act for secureing Rights & passed the third Read-
ing w^th Amendm^ts
The said Bills sent to the Councill Board by M^r Dent & M^r
Harris w^th ord^r to Speake to the latter Bill, as to desireing his
Ex^ncyes appointing Surveyo^rs in the Province &c:
Message from the Gouern^r & Councill brought by M^r Addi-
son & M^r Brookes which was read as follows, Viz^t

By his Ex^ncy the Gouern^r and Councill in Assembly May
30^th 1692.
The Great charge this Countrey hath been at, in building
the State house, the p^rsent decays and Leaky condition there-
of, rendring the same insufficient to secure and p^rserve the
Records of the Province, mooues this board to recomend to
the house the Consideration of some present necessary re-
paires thereof, whereby the same may be putt into a Condition
to secure the said Records, and fitt for holding Courts of Judi-
cature, vntill such time as a more Convenient place for that
purpose shall be thought of and agreed on, which (considering
the great Expence the Province hath already to defray and
discharge) this board Conceives w'ill bear to heavy vpon them
at p^rsent, neither can the same in any probability be Effected
before the hard weather, And further more the p^rsent Neces-

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