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posed Wherefore we Desire the same may pass as it now
Stands.
Signed p Order M Jenifer Clk. Lo. Ho:

And Ordered the following Message be prepared Viz:

L. H. J.

By the Lower House of Assembly June the I^st 1719
May it Please your Honours
In Answer to your Message by Esq^r Brooke of Saturday
last this house are of Opinion that the Act for causing Grand &
Petit Jurors and witnesses to come to the Provinciall and
County Courts &c. lays such a penalty on the Sherriff s to oblige

them to return the best & most understanding freeholders in
their County to serve for Jurors as we dont find one Instance
where the Sherriff s have been fined for Default therein. That

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the Statutes of England Sufficiently provide ag^t Maintenance
and Embracery besides the penalty in that bill That only Mag-
istrates delegates Coroners School-Masters, Overseers of
highways and Constables during their Continuance in their re-
spective Stations of business are exempt from attendance as
Jurors by that Act Wherefore this house humbly desires that
bill may be Assented to by your House as it now Stands.
Signed p Order M Jenifer Cl. L^o H^o

Which said bill and Message were Sent to the Upper house
by M^r Rousby and Coll Hynson.
They return and say they delivered them.
Bill for limitation of officers' fees read the first and Second
time by especial order & will pass which was so Endorst and
Sent to the Upper House by Coll: Hynson and Eleven more.
They return and say they delivered it.
Coll Young and Esq^r Hall from the Upper House deliver M^r
Speaker the bill for disabling Tho^s Macnemara Esq^r to prac-

tice the law in this Province with the following Message Viz:

By the Upper house of Assembly
June I^st 1719.
Gent.
On reading the bill for disabling Tho^s Macnemara Esq^r to
practice the law in this Province the following amendments
are proposed Viz: at
I which his Excellency thought himself Indispensibly ob-
liged to do by his Majestys Royall instructions relateing tc
officers of the Customes within this Province.
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