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Also an ingrossed Bill for taking Special Bail in the Provt
& County Courts
Which said two Bills were read and assented to by the
House of Delegates and ordered to be thus indorsed Viz.

May the 25th 1715.

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

The said Bills are sent up to the Honble Council by Capt.
Greenfield & Mr Baker
They return and say they delivered the Bills
Philemon Lloyd Esqr from the Honble Council delivers Mr
Speaker the following Message Viz.

By his Excellency the Governor and Council in Assembly
May 25th 1715

On Consideration of the Bill now proposed for ascertaining
what Damages shall be allowed on protested Bills of Exchange
his Excellency was pleased to communicate unto us one of
the Royal Instructions Viz. (Article the 17) particularly relat-
ing to Bills of Exchange and enjoining his Excy not to pass
or give his Assent to any Law wherein the Property of any
of his Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain may be concerned
unless there be a Provisoe therein that it shall not be in force
till after twelve Months in Time of Peace and Eighteen in
Time of War. Whereupon we resolved That the said Instruc-
tion be communicated unto your House and do recommend
that such Clause by Way of Proviso be added to the afd Bill
ascertaining what Damages shall be allowed on protested Bills
of Exchange.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Council.

Which Provisoe was accordingly added.
Mr Thomas Robins from the Committee of Laws delivers
Mr Speaker a Bill ascertaining the Height of Fences restrain-
ing Horse-Rangers & to redress the Evil occasioned by use-
less Horses and Mares &ta which was read the first and second
Time by especial Order and will pass and so indorsed.
The said Bill is sent up to the Honble Council by Mr Har-
rison & Cap^t Ballard.
They return & say they delivered the same.
Col^o Thomas Addison delivers Mr Speaker from the Honble
Council a Bill to supply an Omission in the writing the last

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