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dinary Service done this Sessions in ingrossing the Laws for
Probat of Wills and granting Administrations

Ordered That Major Bradford make a Present in the Name
of this Province to Capt John and two other Indians to the
Value of 30/. for their Services and Fidelity to this Province
and that he be allowed for the same in the next Levy.

L. H. J.

Resolved That Mr Alexander Parran has departed in Con-
tempt of this House and therefore he ought to answer for the
same at the next Sessions of Assembly

The House adjourns till one O' Clock in the Afternoon.

Tuesday Afternoon

The House met according to Adjournment. Present as in
the Morning.

On the humble Petition of William Bladen Clerk of the
Honble Council praying that forasmuch as this has been a
long and tedious Assembly and that he has had great Toil
and Fatigue in dispatching the Publick Business, and has been
at the Charge of employing a Clerk Assistant he may be
allowed therefor,

It is ordered that the said W Bladen be allowed the Sum of
three thousand Pounds of Tobacco at the laying of the next
publick Levy for his Assistant

A Bill for Relief of Ezekiel Parr of Cecil County was read
the first & second Time by especial Order and will pass and
so indorsed.

The same is sent up to the Honble Council by Mr Wright
& Mr Clayton.

They return and say they delivered the Bill

An ingrossed Bill providing what shall be good Evidences
to prove foreign and other Debts and to prevent vexatious
and unnecessary Suits at Law & pleading Discounts in Bar
brought down in the Morning by Mr Robins from the Com-
mittee of Laws was this 31st Day of May 1715 Read and
assented to by the House of Delegates and
Signed p Order Thos Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

The same is sent up to the Honble Council by Major
Philips and Mr Stone

They return and say they delivered the Bill

The House adjourns till to Morrow Morning Seven
O'Clock.

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