34 Assembly Proceedings, May 29- June 8, 1717.

U. H. J.

By the uper house of Assembly June 6^th 1717

This Bill Read the first time and will pass with the
Amendm^ts proposed
Signed p order Jn^o Beard Cl up ho.

Sent by Phill Lloyd & Tho^s Smyth Esq^rs who returne &
say they delivered them
Major Wilson & two others with a Bill for building a Court
House for Cecill County ;
Passed by the Lo Ho. Read in this House and will pass.
Sent to the lower house by Col Young who returns & says He
Del^d it
Col Edward Scott & two others from the Lower house with
a Supplementary Bill to the Act relateing to Servants and
Slaves. Which being Read the Question being put whether
it shall pass or not, Resolved it pass And Endorsed Accord-
ingly And sent down by Col Holland.

The house Adjourns till Afternoon

Post Meridiem.
The House meet according to Adjournment,

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Present as in the morning

Cap^t Colegate and three others brought from the lower
house A Bill for regulateing Ordinaries.
On Reading whereof his Excellency is pleased to say to this
house as foll:

His Lordship in the Eleventh Article of my Instructions
already laid before you Asserts the Ordinary Lycences to
be undoubtedly in his Lordship and then disposes of them as
his Lordship thinks fitt, being a branch of his prerogative,
And therefore I cannot in his Lordships name Pass this Bill
into An Act which takes from his Lordship's Right and gives
it him only as a Compliment And hope the lower house will
think Convenient to alter some part of the Preamble to this
Bill

Whereupon the following Message is prepared Viz.

By the Uper Ho: of Assembly June 6^th 1717.
Gent.

On Reading the bill brought from your house by Cap^t
Colegate and three others for regulateing Ordinaries his Ex-