504 Assembly Proceedings, April 5-22, 1720.

U. H. J.

Attwood a Priest, Major Nicholas Sewall, & M^r Richard
Bennett.

The House Adjourns untill to morrow at Eight a Clock.

Wednesday morning Aprill 13^th 1720
The House meett according to Adjournment

Present

Esq^r Brooke
Col Holland
Col Young

Col Addison
Esq^r Lowe
Col Ward

M^r Jones & M^r Wailes from the Lower House deliver Esq^r
Brooke A Bill for Confirming the Last will and Testament of
W^m Bozman of Somersett County dec^d w^ch is thus Endors^t Viz.

By the Lower house of Assembly
Aprill 13^th 1720
Read the first and Second Times by Especiall order and will
pass Nemine Contradicente
Signed p Order M Jenifer Cl Lo. Ho.

Which being read M^r Bordley on his motion to this house
is Admitted as Council for W^m Bozman ag^t the passing the af^d
Bill.
By the Upper house of Assembly

Aprill 13^th 1720

His Excellency having Comunicated to this House a Letter
directed to him from the Honble Tho^s Addison Esq^r one of
our Memb^s wherein he makes mention of a Petition preferred

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to your house ag^t him, the Copy whereof has been produced to
us under Your Clerk's hand by which It appears he stands
Charged with great partiality in the Execution of his Office as
a Land Commissioner and the said Tho^s Addison Esq^r having
represented to us that the said Petition without his being ever
Called to answer thereto is by Your house referred to the
Consideration of the next Sessions of Assembly by which
means he is not only deprived of the present Opportunity of
Justifying his Conduct in the discharge off his Office af^d but
ffurther declares he Cannot think it proper for him to Act in
those Other Eminent Stations he has the Hon^r to be advanced
to, in this Government untill he shall have acquitted himself of
the Facts imputed to him in the said Petition And forasmuch
as We think it unreasonable that any Gentlⁿ and Especially