190 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 20-Nov. 12, 1698.

Original
Journal.

That the Designe of the Bill is to secure yo^r Children and
posterity's from Clandestine Marriages, and certainly none
but papists or their Favourers can be against the Bill the
passing whereof is thought
Sign'd p ord^r
W Bladen Cl: Concil

Then Came the following Message from the house of Dele-
gates by Cap^t Jacob Moreland & Docter Jacob Lookerman
Viz^t

By the house Delegates Novemb the 10^th 1698

The Message by the hon^ble Thomas Tench and James
Frisby Esq^rs of even date was here received And as to the
£800 which your Ex^cy and Councill are pleased to apply
towards the defraying of the publick Charge this house does
Concur to be p^d at the price proposed
And as to appointing of some of the members of this house
to Joyne with the hon^ble Thomas Tench Esq^r in ord^r to State
the Revenue
This house has appointed Major John Hamond Cap^t Rich^d
Hill and M^r Sam^ll Young and have given them power and
Authority to call before them all such psons as they shall see
Convenient to which power We pray yo^r Ex^cys Concurrance
Sign'd p Ord^r
C: Gregory Cl house Del.

p. 4²

The which was assented to by his Ex^cy the Gov^r & This
Board.
Then sent to the house Delegates the ffollowing Message
viz^t

By his Ex^cy the Gov^r and Councill in Assembly
Novemb the 10^th 1698.

Proposed that for the Support of poor Diseased and lame
persons, If it shall please God that the Coole Springs do con-
tinue to make the like Cures as lately that the house would
appropriate one hundred pounds of the mony that is in Bancke
(besides the £8oo now allotted toward the Discharge of the
Levy) for the building of small Tenements at the s^d Coole
Springs for the Entertainm^t of such lame diseased pesons as
shall restore thither for Cure of their Lameness & Diseases
It is hoped that before the Sev^rall Acts for Imposicons &
are expired there will arise thereon to the Country near eight
or nine hundred pounds Sterl