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

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at once and thereby in all probability the Price of that Com-
modity would always be kept up.
May the 6th 1715 Jo. Hart

And Resolved by Majority of Votes that it would be of
great Advantage all Tobacco should be got ready to be
shipped earlier than usually it has been of late Years but that
it would be prejudicial to the good People of the Province
that any prefixed Time should be limited for the Shipping of
Tobacco.

After which it was considered whether the Planters should
not be obliged to have their Cask Timber hewn by a certain
Time in every Year.
And whether it may not be fit to oblige the Coopers to set
up all Casks yearly by a prefixed Time
And agreed to by the Majority of the Committee That
it may be very advantageous to the Province in General
that the Planters have their Timber hewn by a certain
Time and that the Coopers set up their Casks by a prefixed
Time in every Year.
Then the Conferees proceed in the Consideration of that
Part of the Proposal relating to encouraging the Coopers by
giving them Execution for their Pay, and it was carried by
Majority of voices that the said Coopers pay be upon Execu-
tion at the Rate of Eighty Pounds of Tobacco or six Shillings
and Eight Pence for every Tonn of Cask at the Election of
the Employer.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Conl.

On reading which the following Indorsement was ordered
to be made thereon.

By the House of Delegates
May the 7th 1715

This Report being read the House concurs with the same
so far as it relates to hewing Timber for Tobacco Hhds and
setting up the Hhds by a certain Time; but as to that Part of
the said Report that relates to have Coopers Wages upon
Execution this House Resolves the same to be no ways con-
ducing to the publick Good and therefore cannot agree with
the Proposal
Signed p Order Tho. Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

Col^o Matthew Tilghman Ward from the Conference about
revising the Laws delivers Mr Speaker the following Report
Viz.