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Amendment in the last Line but one Viz. except such as shall
be taken in the Name or for the use of our Sovereign Lord
the King his Heirs and Successors
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl Council.

Eodem Die

Read again in the House of Delegates with the Amend-
ment proposed and past for ingrossing.
Col^o John Mackall from the Committee of Laws delivers
Mr Speaker a Bill for the publishing and recording the Laws
&ta and transmitting Journals of the House of Delegates to
the Secretary's Office, which is read the first and second Time
by especial Order and ordered to be thus indorsed

By the House of Delegates
May the thirteenth 1715

Read the first and Second Time by especial Order and will
pass.
Signed p Order Thos Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

The said Bill is sent to the Honble Council by Mr Wright
and Major Ward
They return and say they delivered the same.
And also Col^o Mackall from the same Committee delivers
Mr Speaker a Bill laying an Imposition on Irish Servants &
Negroes and on several Sorts of Liquors imported into this
Province and for encouraging the Inhabitants to adventure
their Vessels more freely abroad. Which was read the first
and second Time and committed to the Committee of Laws
for Amendment.
Mr Parran and Cap^t Mariarte are sent up to the Honble
Council with John Rousby Esqr Naval Officer of Patuxent
District to see him prove his Accts
They return and say they saw him prove his Accounts.
The following Address being prepared is ordered to be
entered Viz.
By the House of Delegates
May the 13th 1715

L. H. J.

Upon Perusal of the 26th Article of her late Majesty's Instruc-
tions concerning the 112d p Hhd. given for the Use and Sup-
port of the Government of this Province to be applyed by
your Excellency in the Manner as in the said Article is
directed and on Perusal of the Accounts of John Rousby
Esqr one of the Officers that collected 3d p Hhd Part of the

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