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By the Lower House of Assembly
July the 21st 1716

May It please your Excellency and Honours
We agree with the Report made by the Conferees & re-
solve that such of our Laws as shall be thought necessary to
be Re-Enacted this Session for the Defects we discover in
them & all the Laws hereafter to be made shall run in the
Stile in the sd Report agreed on
Signed p order Thos Macnemara Cl Ho Del.

U. H. J.

Col Mackall & five more Delegates brought from the
Lower House the following Message Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly
July the 21st 1716

May It please your Excellency and Honours
The Estates of the Inhabitants of this Province Entirely
depending upon the Records of Land, Commissary, Secretary,
& County Court Offices And for that we find that many of
the Record Books in the Land Commissary & Secretary's
Offices are so very much worn that a Speedy Care must be
taken to have them mended at the publick Charge And are
likely to be a continual Charge to the publick by the negli-
gence of the Clerks being Secure they are not to make them
good
The better to prevent such a Charge & to secure the
Estates of the Inhabitants for the future We think it necessary
& just that as the Officers who hold all or any of the said
Offices are Entituled to the ffees so they ought to bear the
Burthen & Charge of keeping such Record Books in due
Repair And should before their Entrance into the Execution
of Such Office hereafter be obliged to give good Security in
this Province for the due Execution of their respective Offices
And keeping the Records in the like order they receive them
And that the Officers now in place be obliged by the day
of next to give such Security or be disabled to hold their

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Several offices & that a Bill may be brought in accordingly with
which your Excellency's & Honours Concurrence is prayed
Signed p order Thos Macnemara Cl Lo Ho

The Board adjourned for two Hours

Post Meridiem

The Council met as in the Forenoon save Col Holland &
Col Whittington

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