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any Person or Persons whatsoever to kill shoot or destroy any
stoned Horse or Colt of Eighteen Months old or upwards
running in the woods or otherwise at his or their Election to
take up and geld such Stoned Horse or Colt and use him as
his own proper Goods and Chattels till the Proprietor pay
such Taker up a Hundred Pounds of Tobacco for his Trouble
and pray your Honrs Concurrence
Signed p Order Thos Macnemara Clk Ho. Del.
The same is sent up to the Honble Council by Capt.
Mariarte and Mr Harrison
They return and say they delivered the Bill.
The House adjourns till One O'Clock in the Afternoon
Friday Afternoon
The House met according to Adjournment. Present as in
the Morning.
A Bill for the speedy Recovery of small Debts brought
down from the Committee of Laws on Yesterday by Major
Woolford was read the first Time and committed for Amend-
ments to the Committee of Laws Viz. that the small Debts
not exceeding four hundred Pounds of Tobacco or thirty
three Shillings and four Pence be recovered as small Debts
not exceeding two hundred Pounds Tobacco or sixteen Shil-
lings and Eight Pence were formerly recovered by the Act
now in Force and not otherwise if the Debtor is not to be found
on the first Warrant the Creditor may sue in the County
Court for his Debt any Law, Statute, &ta
Mr Bordley from the Committee of Laws delivers Mr
Speaker an ingrossed Bill appointing certain Days on which
the several and respective County Courts in this Province are
to be held; which was read and assented to by the House of
Delegates and ordered to be thus indorsed Viz.
May the 27th 1715
Read and assented to by the House of Delegates &
Signed p Order Thos Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.
An ingrossed Bill for the ordering and regulating the
Militia of this Province and for the better Defence and
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