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By the President and Council in Assembly
October 27^th 1711.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

On due Reflection had how often the publick and County
Arms and Ammunition in the respective Counties are embez-
zled and rendered unserviceable upon any sudden Emergency
for the Defence of the Province by their being distributed into
several Hands, which renders the visiting those Arms and
Ammunition difficult and thereby exposes them to be misap-
plyed we cannot think it but absolutely necessary for the
Welfare of the Province, that a small, tight, twelve foot House
or such as may be thought convenient be built in each County
at or near the County Court Houses as Magazines wherein
to lodge the Arms and Ammunition of each County by which
they will be frequently visited and kept in better Repair at
small Expence.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Council.

Read and referred till Monday Morning for Consideration

Col^o Greenberry and Col^o Tilghman from the Honble
Council enter the House and deliver M^r Speaker the Bill for
Relief of Tobias and John Pollard Indorsed

By the Council in Assembly
October 27^th 1711

Read the first and second Times and will pass
W Bladen Cl. Council.

The Bills again read in the House and past for ingrossing.
Col^o Coursey from the Council enters the House and
delivers M^r Speaker John Hawkins and Henry Wright's
Papers and Petition. Referred to M^r West and M^r Worthing-
ton to examine the Papers and make Report thereof on
Monday Morning.

Ordered M^r Tyler and M^r Scott attend the Honble Council
to see M^r William Bladen sworn to his Naval Officers
Accounts. They return and say they saw him sworn thereto
The House proceed to consider the Council's Message
relating to an Agent and resolved the following Message be
sent in Answer thereto.

By the House of Delegates
27^th October 1711

This House have considered your Honours' Message about
appointing an Agent and since you have so frankly communi-

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