78 Assembly Proceedings, May 28-June 8, 1717.

L. H. J.

Vote shall be reassumed or not. Resolved in the Negative
by the Majority of Votes.
Whereupon the Petⁿ was rejected.
M^r Lowe from the upper House delivers M^r Speaker the Bill
for Quieting Differences between the English and Indians
thus endorsed viz.

By the upper house of Assembly, June the 5^th 1717.

Read the first Time and will Pass with the following
Amendments viz. that Instead of (his L^pps Subjects) in the
Title there be the words (the Inhabitants).
Signed p Order Jn^o Beard Cl: upp^r House

Which bill was read the third Time with the Amendments
by especiall Order and Past for Engrossing And sent up to
the Comittee of Laws p Col^o Mackall to be engrost.

The House Adjourns till one a Clock in the Afternoon.

Post Meridiem.

The House meet according to Adjournment who being
Called over appeare as in the forenoon.
Maj^r Harris from the Comitte of Laws delivers M^r Speaker
an Engrost Bill for quieting Differences between the English
and Indians which was read and ordered to be thus endorst
Viz.

June the 5^th 1717.
Read and Assented to by the lower house of Assembly and
Signed p Order
Mic: Jenifer Cl: Lo: Ho:

which was Sent to the upper house p M^r Jowles and M^r Fen-
dall.

They return and say they delivered it.
M^r Harris from the Come of Laws delivers M^r Speaker
Two Bills, the one a Suplementary Bill to the Act for Limi-
tacon of Officers fees which was read in the house and ordered
a second Reading and was so endorst.
The other a Supplementary Bill to the Act relating to Ser-
vants and Slaves which was read in the house and ordered a
Second Reading and was so endorsed.
Maj^r Robins from the Comittee of Laws delivers M^r
Speaker a Bill laying an Addiconall Duty on Negroes & Irish