520 Assembly Proceedings, April 5-22, 1720.

U. H.J.

M^r Lee and Seven members more from the Lower House
Deliver Col Holland the following Message Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly
Aprill the 16^th 1720

P. 63

May It please Your Hon^rs
This house having taken into Consideration the 3^d 4^th & 5^th
Articles of their Lordships' Instructions to his Excy men-
tioned in your Message of yesterday by Col Holland and
three other memb^rs of your honble house are of Opinion that
the Act menconed in the third Article is Sufficiently Declara-
tory in itself as to the Application of the twelve pence p hh^d
therein mencon'd. And to the fourth Article the Result of
this house is that altho we Conceive the Gov^r is no Longer En-
tituled to the three pence p hh^d by Virtue of that Act than
Dureing his residence here Yet in Consideration of his Excys
Good adm^rcon this House Agrees to Bring in a Bill to Enable
his Excy to Enjoy the said three pence p hh^d in his Absence
for the Space of twelve months or untill his Excy shall be
actually Superseeded, which shall first Happen And as [to]
the fifth Article we are of Opinion that the pson Presiding in
the Absence of the Gov^r is Duly Entituled to the Tonnage by
that Act Prescribed.
Signed p Order M Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

M^r Caldwell and M^r Smith from the Lower House deliver
Col Holland these four following Engrost bills Viz.
A Bill to Enable Benjⁿ Duvall of Prince Georges County
to Sell two hundred Acres &c.
To which is thus Written Viz.
Aprill the 16^th 1 720
Read & Assented to by the Lower house of Assembly And
Signed p Order. M Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

A Bill to Supply Certain Defects in the conveying of Lands
from Henry Gibbs &c.
To which is thus Written Viz.

p. 64

Aprill 16^th 1720
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly and
Signed p Ord^r M Jenifer Cl. Lo. House

A Bill for confirming the Last Will & Testament of W^m
Bozman &c. To which is thus Written
April 16^th 1720
Read & Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly And
Signed p order M Jenifer Cl Lower Ho.