Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22,1699. 345

The Board Adjourned 'till 8 of the Clock to morrow
Morning.

Iuly the 19^th 1699
Councill Sate p^rsent as yesterday

Came from the house Col Iohn Thompson and five members
more, with,
A Bill for regulateing Ordinarys and limitting the numbers
of them read and will pass, the Ordinary keepers in Ann-
apolis paying the Kings Secretary 2000^ls Tobb. as before.
A Bill for secureing the Frontiers from Incursions of Indians
read and passed
A Bill for recovering the ffees due for publick Officers.
Read the petition of Col Smithson desireing he may be Im-
ployed to draw the platts to the Law for Ascerteining the

Original
Journal.

Bounds of Land and that he may be Allowed therefore out of
the Mul' upon Officers in Talbott and Dorchester Countys
which is thought fittting and so recomended to the house
The said petition, the afores^d Bills and the Indenture of
Return of a Delegate for Somersett County Sent to the house
by Iames Frisby and Thomas Tasker Esq^rs
Came Col Iohn Thompson and Cap^t Iames Philips from the
house with the Bill for regulateing Ordinarys and limitting the
number of them, Amended as proposed, which is again read
and passed and sent to the house by Thomas Tasker and
Francis Ienkins Esq^rs
Came Cap^t Philip Hoskins and 5 other Members from the
house and brought the Bills Assented to by the house Viz^t
A Bill for settling Assemblys and Provinciall Courts att the
Porte of Annapolis
A Bill of Gratuity to Col Ninian Beal.
A Bill for Assureing five hundred Acres of Land to Hen:
Wallice
A Bill for Continuing the late Act Assessing 3^d p hhd to
the use of his p^rsent Ex^cy from the time of his Arrivall here to
the end of this sessions
A Bill for raiseing a Supply towards defraying of the pub-
lick Leavy of this province
A Bill for Speedy Iustice for small Debts
A Bill for rectifying the ill practices of Attorneys. -
Which are read and Assented to by his Matys honorable
Councill
The Board adjourned 'till 2 of the Clock in the afternoon

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