Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22, 1699. 339

Post meridiem eodem die

Councill Sate p^rsent as before
M^r Iohn Hall &c. Came from the house with these Bills.
An Act for Stay Executions after the 10^th of Aprill Yearly
read the first time
An Act Impowering the Com^rs of the County Courts &c
read the first time
An Act for Speedy Conveying publick Letters read the
first time
An Act Impowering Vestrys to Assess their parishioners
read the 2^d time.
Came M^r Iames Saunders, Maj^r Thomas Smith, M^r Michael
Miller and 9 other members of the house with the following
Address

By the house of Delegates Iuly the 15^th 1699.

Original
Journal.

May it please yo^r Ex^cy
Your Ex^cys Message by the hon^ble Thomas Tench Esq^r and
Col Iohn Addison has been here rec^d and this house humbly
desires that your Ex^cy will Accept of our hearty and unfeigned
thanks as well for your fervent Zeale for the Good of this
province as for your so free and Generous undertakeing in
being a Mediator for us before such time as we were known
unto you but presume that your Own Generous Inclination
was the onely Motive that then induced you wherefore with
the more Cheerfull Assurance of your Continuance of your
wonted Goodness we humbly subscribe our selves.
Your Ex^cys most humble and
obedient Serv^ts

Signed in behalfe of the house of Delegates.
Tho: Smithson Speaker

To which his Ex^cys Answer was Sent, by Thomas Tench
Esq^r and Col Iohn Addison (with the Bills read this Afternoon)
thus Viz^t

Gentⁿ
My Zeal has not been Wanting to become a Mediator for
what you Desire in your Address as you will perceive by the
Copy of a Letter here Sent you which I wrote to the Lords
Comissioners of Trade and plantations upon that Topick and
my Endeavours and Interrest shall not be wanting to my
friends att home to Assist you when it is put in a Method for

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