108 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3, 1715.

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With which Report the House concurs.
The House adjourns till One O'Clock in the Afternoon

Saturday Afternoon

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

Philemon Lloyd Esq. from the Honble Council delivers Mr
Speaker the following Message Viz.

By his Excellency the Gov. and Council in Assembly
Apt the 30th 1715.

In Compliance with your Request in your Message by Mr
Parran and Mr Dashield his Excy has been pleased to order
the Attorney General to issue Summons and other proper

Process of the Provincial Court in Order to examine Witnesses
and to bring to condign Punishment all or any Persons what-
soever who may reasonably be supposed to have embezzled
the Record of Calvert County Court mentioned in Roger
Boyce's Petition. And whereas this is not the first Offence of
the like Nature that has been represented to the Legislature
of this Province his Excy recommends it to your Consideration
whether it may not be advisable to make a particular Law
this Sessions for the Punishment of such Offences which may
hereafter be committed within this Province.
Signed p order W Bladen Cl. Council

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Upon reading the Petition of Benjamin Woodward and
Mary his wife this Day in the House Leave is given to bring
in the Bill prayed for but the Persons interested in the Land
may attend if they think fit to Offer their Reasons (if any they
have) against the passing of the Bill on the first or second
Reading thereof.
L^t Col^o Young and Colo Tilghman from the Honble Council
deliver Mr Speaker the following Message Viz.

By his Excy the Governor and Council in Assembly
April 30th 1715.

His Excellency and this Board being of Opinion that if all
Tobaccos in this Province were got ready in Cask by the
tenth of May Yearly and that no Tobaccos should be paid
away or shipt after that Time till the first of October following
in any one Year it would mightily conduce to the Advance-
ment of our Staple and lessening the Price of Freight, have
therefore thought fit to desire a Conference between some of