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The Council Adjourned till half an hour after two of the
Clock in the Afternoon

Wednesday Post Meridiem
The Honble her Majesty's Council in Assembly Sate
Present
His Excellency the Governeur
Col Edw^d Lloyd Col W^m Whittington
Col W^m Holland L^t Col Addison
Col W^m Coursey Philemon Lloyd Esq^r
L^t Col Sam^l Young L^t Col Rich^d Tilghman
Col Tho^s Greenfield John Dorsey Esq^r

U. H. J.

The Speaker and Members of the House of Delegates
came & attended His Excellency the Governeur in Council
and M^r Speaker presented to his Excellency a Bill for settling
a Revenue on her Majestys present Governeur Which was by
his Excellency assented to on behalf of her most Sacred
Majesty and Sealed with the great Seal of this Province in
presence of the s^d Speaker and Delegates after which they
took Leave & repair'd to their House
M^r Roger Woolford & twelve more of the Delegates
brought from their House a Bill for Limitation of Officers
Fees Endorsed by their House

June 29^th 1714
Read the first & second time by especial Order and will pass

The Title of which being read It was ordered to lye on the
Table
The Bill for relieving the Inhabitants of this Province from
some Aggrievances in the prosecution of suits at Law being
read at the Board, His Excellency is told that the Bill is not
a new Bill but only revised at this Time And hath been
transmitted some years since to her Majesty and the Lords

Comm^rs of Trade & Plantations And nothing has ever been
by the s^d Lords objected against it
The honble Philemon Lloyd Deputy Secretary desired to
be heard thereto and offered that It was a prejudice to the
Secretary's Office in restraining the Jurisdiction of the Pro-
vincial Court.
But the Bill intending a publick Good to the Inhabitants
of this Province & not being prejudicial to any of her Majesty's
Subjects in Great Brittain It having been first put to the Vote
was Ordered to be thus Endorsed —

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