The Upper House. 533

or Saturday morning last, Upon his Oath to him adm^rstred de-
clares that on Friday Night last M^r Henry Darnall Sen^r & M^r
Charles Diggs Supt at his house And on the s^d Friday night
he saw M^r Benjⁿ Hall & M^r Clement Hill in this Town & on
Saturday morning M^r Charles Diggs was likewise at his house.
Aprillthe 19^th 1720
The Above Deposit" Sworn to before his Excy in this house
Signed p Ord^r Jn^o Beale Cl Up Ho.

U. H. J.

Likewise M^rs Ann Hutton being sent for before this House
to give an Account of what Papists were at her House on
Friday night or Saturday morning last upon her Oath to her
Administred declares that M^r Henry Darnall Sen^r & she be-
lieves M^r Charles Diggs was at her house on ff riday Night last
and on Saturday morning last was at her house a Gentl that
she took to be M^r W^m Diggs & on Friday night M^r Darnall
asked her for M^r Benj. Hall who told him that there was a
Gentl up Stairs with Esq^r Brooke upon which M^r Darnall
sayd he believed that was M^r Hall
Aprillthe 19^th 1720
Sworne to before his Excell^cy in this House
Signed p Order John Beale Cl Up Ho.

His Excellency and this house Observe on the aforegoing
proceedings that Altho the most Eminent of the Papists were
in town at the Time appointed them to make good their
Pretentions yet they have not thought fitt to Appear then or
at any time since to Offer any thing in Vindication of their
Pretended rights And therefore take this their Demeanour
as a tacite Acknowledgment that their Pretensions are
groundless and their Exclamations Most unreasonable.

By the Upper House of Assembly
Aprill 20^th 1720
Gent. On reading the Engrost Bill for reviving and Con-
tinuing the Act Entituled An Act for Ascertaining the Gauge
and Tare of Tob^o hh^ds&c.
We have Examined & Considered the Act intended to be
revived by that Bill and find the Bill proposed instead of
Reviving the Act as it now Stands alters the nature of its
Continuance which was at first founded on an Instruction.

p. 81

We therefore propose as an Amendm^t to that Bill that the
time of its Continuance be Limitted in the same manner as it
was in the Orriginall Act Viz. to Continue from the 29^th

p. 82