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

L. H. J.

Read again in the House of Delegates after the Amend-
ment made and past for ingrossing.
Also a Bill relating to the Standard &ta thus indorsed Viz.

By the Council in Assembly
May the 23d 1715

Read the first and second Times and will pass
Signed p Order W. Bladen Cl. Council.

Read again in the House of Delegates and past for
ingrossing
Col^o William Coursey from the Honble Council delivers
Mr Speaker a Bill for Encouragement of Tillage and Relief of
poor Debtors thus indorsed

By the Council in Assembly
May the 23d 1715

On reading this Bill it was put to the Question whether it
should pass and Resolved it pass without the last Paragraph
beginning at the Words " and for the further Encouragement
of making Tobacco" and that the Bill be Temporary.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Council

Read the third Time as above is proposed, in the House of
Delegates and pass'd for ingrossing.
The House adjourns till One O'Clock in the Afternoon.

Tuesday Afternoon

The House met according to Adjournment. Present as in
the Morning.
The Indorsement from the Council on the Back of the Bill
relating to Servants and Slaves brought down in the Morning
by Col^o Addison being considered and debated; the following
is prepared in Answer thereto Viz.

By the House of Delegates
May the 24th 1715

Your Indorsement on this Bill being read and debated we
agree to that Part of it that proposes a Clause of restraining
Masters to give their Servants above ten Stripes for any one
Offence but that Servants who shall be thought to deserve more
shall be carried before a Justice or other Magistrate to be
whipped or corrected as proposed. And as to that Part