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

Original
Journal.

Both w^ch propositions this Comittee have Duely Considered
& as to the first where any Grants were really due to any the
Inhabitants of this Province that Experience hath demonstrated
that most pattents have been heretofore regularly Issued out
of the Land office the officers thereof haveing Considerable
fees from thence accrewing and that if any pson have a reall
Right he ought not to be Limitted.
And as to the second in folio 2 and folio 11 Sufficient and
reasonable provission is made humbly offer to the Considera-
tion of the house
Signed p Ord^r
Sam^ll Worthington Clk Com.

p. 3²

Put to the vote if any such Limitation shall be made or
not and Carryed in the negatiue.
Read the Conveyance for the Land at the Coole springs.
Referrd to the Comittee for Surveying of Land to Consider
thereof
The Honble Thomas Tasker Esq^r Enters the house and
informes M^r Speaker that his Ex^cy Desires him to send some
of the members of this house to the Councill board to see the
Navall officers swear to their Acc^tts
Ord^rd M^r Sam^ll Young & M^r Iacob Loockerman goe to the
Councill Board and see the same pformed
Who returne and say that they Did see Maj^r W^m Dent
M^r W^m Bladen George Plater and George Muschamp Esq^rs
and M^r Thomas Collier make oathe to their Severall and
respective Acc^ts
The house Adjournes Till Two of the Clock

Eodem Die the house mett againe & were called over
The Conveyance for Conveying the Lands at the Coole
springs Read and approved of and ord^rd to be sent to his
Ex^cy and Councill

By the house of Delegates Iuly 7^th 1699.

Whereas by Virtue of a Certaine act of Assembly of this
province Impowering Severall trustees to purches fifty acres
of Land in Saint Maryes County adjoycent to and in w^ch the
healing fountains of Water called the Coole Springs should
be included there has been by the said Trustees by the said
Act Impowred fifty Acres of Land adjacent too and in w^ch the
said Coole Springs are Included purchased of M^r Iohn Dent
of Saint Marys County and for fear of Death or other Casualty
this house has taken Care to gett a firme Conveyance drawne