222 Assembly Proceedings, April 22-May 10, 1718.

L. H. J.

but, M^r James Lloyd and Col^o Edward Scot to join the mem-
bers of your House in the Conference who are ready to attend.
Signed p Ord^r M: Jenifer Cl. lo. ho.

And Sent to the upper House by the Gent appointed.
They return & say they delivered it.
On reading the Report of the Comittee of Aggrievances
referrd from last Sessions,
Resolved a Bill be brought in to oblige Ex^rs & Adm^rs to make
up their Accounts under a year & a Day according to that
Report & ordered the Comittee of Laws prepare the Bill.
The Q^r being put whether that Part of the Report that re-
lates to sherr⁵ purchasing of Ordinary Keepers' Tobacco is
any aggrievance
Resolved the same is not any aggrievance by the Majority
of votes.
As to the last aggrievance mentioned in that Report the Q^r
was put to what Time accons Shall Continue in the Severall
Courts
Resolved Twelve Months in the County eighteen months in
the Provinciall & Chancery & High Court of Appeals & no
longer unless good Cause shewn or the Accons be Struck off
the Docquet, & Ordered the Comittee of Laws prepare the
Bill.

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The house adjourns till one of the Clock in the Afternoon

Post Meridiem. The House meet according to Adjourn-
ment
Maj^r Harris from the Comittee of Laws delivers M^r
Speaker an engrost Supplementary Bill to the Act directing
the manner of electing and Summoning Delegates &c: which
was read and Ordered to be thus endorst viz:

Aprill the 29^th 1718.
Read and assented to by the lower House of Assembly and
Signed p Order M: Jenifer Clk. lo. ho.

and sent to the upper House by Major Harris Cap^t Pollard
& M^r Waughop. They return and say they delivered it.
Esq^r Hall from the upper House acquaints M^r Speaker that
the engrost Supplementary Bill to the Act directing the man-
ner of electing and Summoning Delegates is read and As-
sented to by the upper House.