416 Assembly Proceedings, June 22- July 3, 1714.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

Dimensions of which House are as mentioned in Folio 103 of
the Journals of last Sessions to be built 25 Foot long and 18
foot wide and ten Foot Pitch sawed Frame planked within
Side and without well shingled and to be built on the publick
Ground.

Col^o Addison and Col^o Tilghman from the Honble Council
enters the House and delivers M^r Speaker the Bill reviving
and continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province Entituled
an Act for ordering and regulating the Militia of this Province
for the better Security and Defence thereof and for supplying
some Defects therein with the following Endorsement Viz.

By the Council in Assembly
July I^st 1714.

Read in Council and will pass.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Con.

p. 451

By the House of Delegates
July I^st 1714.

The same was read in the House and passed for engrossing.
The House adjourns till One O'Clock in the Afternoon

Thursday Afternoon.

The House met again according to Adjournment. Present
as in the Morning.

The Petition of Thomas Macnemara sent down by Col^o
Whittington from the Honble Council is read and ordered to
be entered as follows

To his Excy the Gov. and Council in Assembly
The humble Petition of Thomas Macnemara
Humbly Sheweth
That whereas your Petitioner has with many others joined
in a Petition to your Excy and Honours praying Leave to
speak to a Bill for relieving the Inhabitants of this Province
from some Aggrievances in the Prosecution of Suits at Law;
Your Petitioner being employed in the publick Service could
not attend your Excy and Honours at the Time appointed for
hearing the other Petitioners; That your Petitioner hopes he
has some Reasons not urged by the other Petitioners to offer
whereby he hopes to gain your Excy and Honour's Recom-