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Majesty and particularly the Act for Limitation of Officers
Fees which this House are humbly of Opinion wants several
Regulations and pray your Honours to appoint some Mem-
bers of her Majesty's Council to join in Conference with some
of the Members of this House to consider thereof and that
your Honours please to appoint the Time and Place
Signed p Order Rich^d Dallam Cl. Ho. Del.

Read and sent up to the Council p M^r Nicholas Lowe,
M^r Ungle, M^r Roberts and M^r Hudson.
They return and say they delivered the Message.
M^r Gale and the Gentlemen appointed a Committee relating
to the Nanticoke Indians deliver their Report.
Read and order'd to lye on the Table.
Upon reading Mary Marchy's Petition and hearing M^r
William Potts in his Defence thereto
Resolved M^r Potts whipt the Petitioner illegally and he pay
the Petitioner 600 lbs of Tobacco in full Satisfaction for her
Damages and to the Clerk of the House three hundred Pounds
of Tobacco To the Doorkeeper and Serjeant 50 ^lbs Tobacco
each and that the said William Potts be discharged from any
further Attendance.
Arthur Miller's Petition read and the Consideration thereof
referred till next Session of Assembly. And Ordered That
Thomas Clegatt the Son and Heir of Thomas Clegatt deceased
have Notice then to appear to make his Objections if any.
Col^o Coursey Col^o Greenberry, M^r John Dorsey and Col^o
Tilghman from the Honble Council enter the House and
deliver M^r Speaker the following Message with the Instruc-
tions &^ta

By the Honble President and Council in Assembly
October 24^th 1711.

The Honble President having received her Most Sacred
Majesty's Royal Commands by Way of Instruction to recom-
mend to you the conforming our Gauge of Tobacco Hhds
with those of our Neighbours in Virginia and the passing a
Law for that Purpose, with Permission likewise to make an
Act to prevent the Cropping Tobacco Hhds with a Penalty
therein not exceeding what shall be imposed on such who
exceed the Gauge of them, In Obedience thereto the said
Instructions are herewith sent you and the enacting the afore-
said Laws earnestly recommended, by which our Trade will
be encouraged and our Tobaccoes secured from the Damages
sustained formerly.

L. H. J.
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