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Eodem Die.
Which said three Bills are read again in the House of Dele-
gates & past for ingrossing.
A Bill to secure Persons Rights to Town Lands thus indorsed
Viz.
By the Council in Assembly
May the 26th 1715.
Read the first and second Times by especial Order and will
pass.
Signed p Order W Bladen Gk Council.
Eodem Die.
Which said three Bills are read again in the House of
Delegates and past for ingrossing.
A Bill ascertaining the Height of Fences, to prevent the
Evil occasioned by the Multitude of Horses and restraining
Horse Rangers within this Province and to redress the great
Evil accruing to this Province by the Multiplicity of useless
Horses Mares and Colts that run in the Woods thus indorsed
Viz.
By the Council in Assembly
26th May 1715.
Read the first Time & put to the Question whether the
Clause obliging the Ranger to return wild Horses, Mares,
Geldings, Bulls or Cows, tho' three Years old on Proof made
at any Time within six months after their being taken of the
former Proprietor thereof should be agreed to; and Resolved
Nemine contradicente that the said Clause be rejected And
further proposed that all young stoned Horses running in the
woods be cut before they be Eighteen months old or other-
wise it may be lawful for the Ranger of the County to take
them up and after gelding convert them to his own Use or
for any other Person to shoot and destroy them.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cik Council.
Upon which the following Indorsement is ordered to be made
By the House of Delegates
May the 27th 1715.
May it please your Honours,
Your Indorsement on this Bill being read we agree to leave
out the Clause of returning to the Proprietor of any wild
Horse, Mare, Gelding, Bull or Cow in six Months after the
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