The Lower House. 199

By the House of Delegates
May the 28th 1715

May it please your Excellency & Honours,
We have read with great Satisfaction the Bill proposed by
your Excellency and Honours for ascertaining the Bounds of
Land within this Province the first and second Time, and as
we find the same to be an excellent, well, and ingeniously
devised Bill, and tending to the Good and Welfare of this
Province, the reducing the same unto Practice being particu-
larly owing to your Excellency's Speech to the House of Del-
egates in October Assembly last, so we hold ourselves bound
to render your Excellency and Honours our most hearty
Thanks for devising so useful a Law; as Nothing that is new
can be perfect at it's first Invention; We humbly propose the
following Amendments which we hope your Excellency and
Honours, on Consideration will find useful for putting the said
Law in Practice with which the said Bill will pass Viz. Page 3.
18 Line, or Part or Parcel of any Tract or Tracts of Land.
Page 3. 21 Line, any ways interested in Such Dispute Page 7.
15 Line, on each of. In the same Page 16th Line a Clause to
be added for Sheriffs Coroners &ta to pay due Obedience
to the Commissioners as to the Provincial Court which is here-
with sent. And a Proviso that where Bounds have been

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settled or determined before this Time by Law, Suits, Arbi-
trations or otherwise, such Determination appearing upon
Record, shall, as so settled and determined remain and con-
tinue unaltered and be no ways subject to any Alteration
whatsoever by Virtue of this Act, and notwithstanding this
Law, the Provincial Court may determine all Actions of Tres-
pass & Ejectment already depending before them or which
shall be commenced before the first Day of June Seventeen
hundred and Sixteen against Persons beyond Seas but the
Law so far as it concerns the People of this Province to be in
force immediately after the End of this Sessions.
Signed p Order Thos Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

The same is sent up, and the Bill, to the Honble Council
by Mr Tyler, Col^o Mackall, Mr Hill, Major Wilson, Capt
Mariarte, Mr Wright, Capt Ballard, Capt. Trippe and Mr
Hopkins.
They return and say they delivered the Bill & Message.
Philemon Lloyd Esq. from the Honble Council delivers Mr
Speaker a Bill for Direction of Sheriffs in their Offices and
restraining their ill Practices within this Province thus in-
dorsed Viz.

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