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An ingrossed Bill for Encouragement of Tillage & Relief
of poor Debtors.
Which aforegoing three ingrossed Bills were read and
assented to by the House of Delegates and ordered to be
severally thus indorsed Viz.
May the 26th 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.
Fendall & Capt. Dallahide
They return and say they delivered the Bills
The House adjourns till One O'Clock in the Afternoon
Thursday Afternoon
The House met again according to Adjournment. Present
as in the Morning.
Mr Thomas Bordley from the Committee of Laws delivers
Mr Speaker a Bill for the better Administration of Justice in
Testamentary Affairs, granting Administrations, recovering of
Legacies, securing Filial Portions, and Distribution of Intes-
tates Estates; which was read the first and second Times in
the House of Delegates and will pass and so indorsed.
The said Bill is sent up to the Honble Council by Mr Tasker
& Capt. Ballard.
They return and say they delivered the same.
Ordered That the Committee of Accounts make the fol-
lowing Allowances to the several Clerks for their Services
done and Expences this Sessions Viz.
To the Clerk of the Committee of Laws twenty five Pounds.
To the Clerk assistant of the Committee of Laws fifteen
Pounds.
To the Clerk of the Committee of Accounts Eighteen
Pounds.
To the Clerk of Aggrievances and Elections twelve Pounds.
Ordered That the Clerk of the Committee of Laws, and
of the Committee of Accounts be allowed in all Sessions
hereafter two hundred Pounds Tobo p Diem for every Day
during every Sessions.
And that the Clerks Assistant to the Clerk of this House
be allowed a hundred and Eighty Pounds of Tobacco p Diem,
and that the Clerk of the Committee of Laws be allowed a
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