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Capt Dent & Mr Harrison brought the following message
from their House Viz

By the House of Delegates
May the 5th, 1715

May It please your Excellency
By an Act of Assembly of this Province Entituled an Act
for Amerciaments in the Provincial & County Courts made
the 23d Septemr 1704 All Amerciaments in the Provincial

U. H. J.

Court are to be employed as the Governour & Council think
fitt But It not appearing to this House how the same have
been Employed or that they have been accounted for since
the passing that Act humbly pray your Excell will order an
Account of them to be laid before us this Sessions
Signed p Order Tho5 Macnemara Cl ho. Del.

Upon reading whereof his Excellency is pleased to Enquire
how the said Amerciaments have been disposed of And is
informed by the Clerk of the Board that by an Order of
Council made in his Excellcy Governt Nicholson's Time the sd
Provincial Amerciaments were Settled upon the then Clerk of
this Board Mr Henry Denton the better to enable him to keep
a Clerk And afterwards upon the present Clerks coming into
the Office he had Execution granted to him at two several
times for them once in his Excellcy Col Blakiston's Time &
once during Col Seymour's Government by virtue whereof
he received a Small Sum of Tob^o scarce worth his Trouble &
Charge in making them out to the several Countys And is
ready to render an Account to the Board of what he has
received thereof
And thereupon the following message was sent to the Dele-
gates — Viz

By his Excellency the Governour and Council in Assembly
May the 5th, 1715

On receipt of your Message by Capt Dent & Mr Harrison
his Excellency has been pleased to enquire how the Provin-

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cial Amerciaments have been disposed of and was informed
by the Clerk of this Board that by an Order in Council made
in Governour Nicholson's time the said provincial Amercia-
ments were Settled upon the then Clerk of the Council Mr
Henry Denton the better to enable him to keep a Clerk And
afterwards Upon the present Clerk's coming into the Office
he had Execution granted him at two several times for them
once in his Excellency Col Blakiston's Time and once during

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