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Assembly by which Time we shall better inform ourselves of
the Conveniency or Inconveniency that will attend such
Alteration
Signed p Order Thos Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

The same is sent up to the Honble Council by Mr Parran
and Mr Holdsworth
They return and say they delivered the Message.
Colo Thomas Greenfield from the Honourable Council
delivers Mr Speaker the transcribed Bill declaring how the
forty Pounds of Tobacco p Poll shall be disposed of &ta with
the following Message Viz.

By his Excellency the Governor and Council in Assembly
May the 23d 1715

We take Notice that in the Preamble of the Act declaring
how the forty Pounds of Tobacco p Poll shall be disposed of
&ta (N^o 1) and transcribed on Parchment and sent up to this
Board to be revised Referrence is made therein to an Act of
Religion not in Force & therefore ought to be reenacted &
amended
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Council

Thereupon the same is sent up to the Committee of Laws
to be reenacted and amended accordingly
The House adjourns till One O'Clock in the Afternoon

Monday Afternoon

The House met according to Adjournment. Present as in
the Morning.
A Bill relating to Criminals &ta was read the second Time
in the House of Delegates pursuant to the Order in the
Morning by especial Order and will pass and so indorsed.
The same is sent up to the Honble Council by Mr Wright
and Mr Taylor
They return and say they delivered the same

L. H. J.

An ingrossed Bill for Attachments &ta was read and
assented to by the House of Delegates and ordered to be thus
indorsed Viz.

May the 23d 1715

Read and assented to by the House of Delegates and
Signed p Order Thos Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

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