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By the Council in Assembly
May the 23d 1715

Read in Council by especial Order the first and second
Time with a Clause obliging all who have a Right to Vote to
appear at the Election and give their Votes under the Penalty
of a hundred Pounds Tobacco to the use of the County unless
on Sufficient Excuse at the next County Court to be admitted
by the said Court
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Council

Eodem Die.

Read again in the House of Delegates after the Amendmts
made, and past for ingrossing

L. H. J.

Resolved Nemine contradicente That no Allowance ought
to be made for the Notary's Fee for protested Bills of Ex-
change to any Person whatever nor ought any Person or Per-
sons whatever to exact demand or receive the same the
Damages allowed by Law being sufficient to satisfy all.
Col^o Richard Tilghman from the Honble Council acquaints
Mr Speaker that the Honble Council assented to the three
several ingrossed Bills following

On the 23d Day of May 1715

An ingrossed Bill for the publishing and recording the
Laws &ta and transmitting Journals of the House of Delegates
and Council in Assembly into the Secretary's Office.
An ingrossed Bill against Adultery and Fornication
An ingrossed Bill for Stay of Execution after the tenth of
May Yearly.
Mr James Harris from the Committee of Laws delivers Mr
Speaker a Bill appointing Court Days in the Provincial and
several County Courts in this Province which was read the
first Time and sent up to the Committee of Laws for Amend-
ment.
Philemon Lloyd Esqr from the Honble Council delivers Mr
Speaker a Bill for rectifying the ill Practices of Attorneys in
this Province and ascertaining Fees to the Attorney General
&ta thus indorsed.

By the Council in Assembly
May the 23d 1715.

Read in Council the first and second Times and will pass
with the Amendments made. And the Word "by" in the
11th Line of the 9th Folio omitted
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Council.

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