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Bordley Esq^rs Members of our House with yours to prepare
the Address Proposed

Signed p Ord^r Jn^o Beale Cl Up Ho.

Which Message with his Excys Answer to the Message
Delivered af^d by M^r Tyler & three more are sent to the Lower
House by Esq^r Lloyd & Esq^r Bordley who return & Say they
Delivered the same
M^r Tasker & M^r Ryder from the Lower House Deliver his
Excy the following Message Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly Aprill the 22^d 1720

U. H. J.

May It please Your Hon^rs
It has been the Opinion of this house hitherto from generall
Causes that this Sessions would not have Continued so long
Considering there was but little publick Business then before
us so that from thence we reasonably might in favour of the
Parties Petitioning be willing to referr the further Considera-
tion of that Affair till next Sessions rather than Surprize them
by so Speedy a Determination which we take to be the Reason,
and Cannot Conceive that any Construction could be made of
our pretending to a right of Determining the Duration of the
Sessions w^ch was never Intended by us For We allow his
Excy has the only Prerogative under his Lordships to Deter-
mine the same
Signed p Ord^r M Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

M^r Walter Smith and M^r Caldwell from the Lower House
Deliver his Excy the following Message Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly

Aprill the 22^nd 1720
May It Please Your Hon^rs
We return your Hon^rs our hearty thanks for your ffavour in
Obtaining his Excys Leave to Comunicate to us his Majesty's
Royall Lycence to him which haveing pused we herewith Re-
turn being well Satisfyed therewith.
Signed p Order M Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

The Supplementary Bill to the Act Entituled An Act for
Settling a Revenue on her Majesty's present Gov^r which is
thus Written Viz.
Aprill the 22^d 1720

Read & Assented to by the Upp^r house of Assembly and
Signed p order Jn^o Beale Cl Up Ho.

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