The Upper House. 75

Mr Tyler & nine more of the Delegates came & brought
up the Bill ascertaining the Bounds of Lands & the following
message

By the House of Delegates
May the 28th 1715

May It please your Excellency and Honours

We have Read with great Satisfaction the Bill proposed by
your Excellency and Honours for ascertaining the Bounds of
Lands within this Province the first & second time And as we
find the same to be an excellent well & ingeniously devised
Bill and tending to the good and Welfare of this Province the
reducing the same into Practice being particularly owing to
your Excellency's Speech to the House of Delegates in Octo-
ber 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 its first Inven-
tion We humbly propose the following Amendments which
we hope your Excellency & Honours on Consideration will
find useful for putting the said Law in practice with which the

U. H. J.

said Bill will pass Viz. page the 3d 18th line (or part or parcel
of any tract or Tracts of Lands) page the 3d 21st line (any
ways Interested in such dispute) page 7th 15th line (on each
of) in the same page 16th line, a Clause to be added for Sher-
riffs Coroners &c to pay due Obedience to the Commrs as to
the Provincial Court which is herewith Sent. And a Proviso
where bounds have been Settled & determined remain and
continue unaltered no ways subject to any Alteration whatso-
ever by Virtue of this Act, And that notwithstanding this Law
the Provincial Court may determine all Actions of Trespass
& Ejectment already depending before them or which shall
be commenced before the first day of June 1716 against Per-
sons beyond Sea &c
But the Law so far as it Concerns the People of this Prov-
ince to be in force immediately after the End of this Session

Signed p order Thos Macnemara Cl Ho Del.

On Consideration whereof the Bill being again Read Re-
solved that all the Amendments proposed thereto by the Dele-
gates be agreed to save the last Viz. That the Law be
immediately in force after the End of this Session which his
Excellency cannot consent to being of a very extraordinary
nature
And being so Endorsed was sent to the House by Col
Coursey

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