The Lower House. 275

Joppa. We have heard considered and debated the same and
find no material Objections thereto, only its said the House is
not quite finished therefore Resolved That the Justices of that
County may proceed therein according to their Directions
notwithstanding the aforesaid Ordinance to which we desire
your Honours Concurrence
Signed p order R Dallam Cl. Ho. Del.

Sent up to the Honble Council by Col^o Hammond and M^r
Talbot
They return and say they delivered the same.
M^r Robert Tyler from the Committee of Aggrievances
enters the House and delivers their Report Ordered it be
laid by till Monday
The Honble Samuel Young and Richard Tilghman Esq"
enter the House & deliver M^r Speaker the Report of the
Conferrees agreed to by the Council &^ta

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

Supplementary Act to the Act for Probat of Wills &^ta Bill
to restrain the ill Practice of Sheriffs in executing Writs of
fieri facias.
Bill permitting the Inhabitants to sue out Writs and confess
Judgments in their own Names &^ta All these three Bills
Read the second Time and will pass
R. Dallam Cl. Ho. Del.

Sent up to the Honble Council for Concurrence by M^r
Garrett, M^r James ffrisby, M^r James Mackall & M^r Woolford.
They return and say they delivered the Bills
Bill for Relief of poor Debtors and ascertaining the Manner
of Tenders in Tobacco
Bill for killing Wolves, Crows and Squirrels
Bill for more speedy conveying publick Letters and Packets
Read and severally Indorsed

By the House of Delegates
31" October 1713

Read the first Time and ordered a second Reading on Mon-
day Morning next
R. Dallam Cl. Ho. Del.

Josiah Crouch Petition with the Report of Committee of
Laws thereon Read and Leave given the Pet' to bring in a
Bill as prayed
Robert Scott and Charles Neale's Petition with the Report

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