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Thursday May 21^st 1719

The House meet according to Adjournment
Present Col Holland, Col Young Esq^r Hall Col Addison
M^r Henry Lowe & Col Ward.

U. H. J.

John Rousby Esq^r and three others with a Bill for the En-
couragement of an Iron Manufacture within this Province
Endorsed
By the Lo House of Assembly

May the 21^st 1719
Read the first and second Times by Especiall Order And
the Question being put whether the Bill shall pass as It now
Stands or be Amended,
Resolved It be Amended by the Majority of Votes.
Whereupon the same being Amended, is Read with the
Amendm^ts & will pass.
Signed p order Jn^o Beard Cl Up Ho.

Sent by Col Addison & Col Ward who return & say they
Delivered it

The House Adjourns till Afternoon

Post Meridiem.
The house meet According to Adjournment
Present as before noon

The Petition of John Budd & Robert Gray languishing Pris-
oners in Kent County Praying Relief, being Read are Recom-

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ended to the Consideration of the lower House, And Accord-
ingly so Endorsed, and sent down by Al^r Henry Lowe who
returns & says He D^d them.

The House Adjourns till to morrow morn.

Friday May 22^d 1719
The House meet According to Adjournment
Present

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Col Holland
Esq^r Hall
Col. Addison

Col Young
M^r Lowe &
Col. Ward