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Benjamin Tasker Esq^r & M^r James Smith from the Lower
House Deliver Coll Holland the following Message Viz.

By the Low^r house of Assembly

July the 19^th 1721
May It please Your Honours
This House in Order to Dispatch Business as much as in
them lyes have Entred a Resolve to Sitt after this day from
Eight of the Clock till Eleven in the forenoon And from one
till five of the Clock in the Afternoon And Desire to know
whether the times proposed be Agreeable to your Honours
Signed p ord^r M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

Whereupon It is Resolved by this house that the following
Message be prepared viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly
July the 19. 1721
We Approve of your Proposalls as to your times of Sit-
ting
Signed p Ord^r Joh Beale Cl. Upp^r Ho.

U. H. J.

Sent down to the Lower house by Coll Ward Who Returns
and Says he Delivered the Same
The house Adjournes for two hours

Afternoon
The house meet According to Adjournment
Present

Col Holland Thomas Bordley Esq^r &
Col Tilghman James Bowles Esq^r
Col Ward

His Honour the Gov^r Communicated to this board An Ad-
dress from the Burgesses to the Gov^r of Virginia which he
received from him Which Address is as follows Viz.

To the Hon^ble Alexander Spotswood His Majesty's Lie^vt
Gov^r and Comander in Chief of Virginia.

By the House of Burgesses
May It please Your Honour
We having Considered your Message and the petition
therewith Sent to this house, on the Twenty fourth of the
last Month relateing to the building a Light house on Cape
Henry, return your Honour our thanks for Comunicating to

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