The Lower House. 601

Bill for advancement of Trade &^ca Read with the Amend-
ments remarked & do pass
Bill to sell the Freehold of Abraham Naylor applying the
money to the uses in the will Indorsed April i6^th 1706. By
the Council in Assembly Read the first Time and will pass
W. Bladen Cl. Co.

And the Bill for Encouragement of Trade &^ca assented
James Saunders Esq^r enters the House & delivers M^r
Speaker the following Message Viz.

By the Council in Assembly April 15^th 1706.

In Answer to Part of the Houses Message by Col^o Maxwel
and M^r Mackall we have perused the Act of Religion and find
it no Ways declares the Penal Laws to be in force here but
wholly exempts the Dissenters upon complying with certain
Duties therein injoined.
Signed p Order W. Bladen Cl. Co.

Upon reading the foregoing Message, Resolved That a Bill
be prepared declaring the Act of Parliament against Dissenters
to be in force in this Province
Bill for appointing Itinerant Judges for the Ease and
Security of this Province.
Read the first Time and referred for further Reading till
Afternoon.
Bill declaring the Statute against Bigamy to be in force.
Read the first Time and committed for Amendments.
Col^o Edward Lloyd from the Honble Council enters the
House & delivers M^r Speaker Ingrossed Bill for dividing
several Counties &^ca with some Remarks which were amended
and sent up by M^r Joseph Grey.
James Saunders Esq^r enters the House from the Honble
Council and delivers the following Bills
Bill to make void Edmondson's Deed.
Bill for Naturalization of John Baptist Tyler
Bill declaring the Act ascertaining the Bounds of Land to
be in force.
Bill uniting New Port Hundred to William and Mary Parish.
Bill settling certain Lands on John Whittington,
All severally indorsed thus
By the Council in Assembly April 16^th 1706 Bill for Division
of Several Counties &^ca
Indorsed Viz. April 16^th 1706. Her Majesty's Honble
Council have read and assented hereto.
The House adjourns till two O'Clock Afternoon
W Bladen Cl. Council.

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