226 Assembly Proceedings, July 18-August 5, 1721.

L. H. J.

Speaker the Supplementary Bill to the Act for Stay of Execu-
tion after the tenth day of May yearly Thus Endorst Viz :

By the Upper House of Assembly July 27^th 1721.
Gentlemen.

We thought the Judges in the Respective Courts might
have been very well Trusted with the Judicial Liberty of
Granting or Denying the Supersedeas proposed in Respect
to the Money Debts According to the Equity of the Case
before them; especially Considering, that the same Reasons
do not Subsist for Money as Tobacco... Money Debts and bills
of Exchange are commonly Contracted to be paid by the Going
out of the Ships, which generally happens in the summer
Time after the Time Limited for Stay of Executions, and

such Contracts by this Law are Liable to be Defeated by those

that have so little Regard to Honesty and their Characters

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as to take Advantage of it; and who may probably have pre-
vented the Creditors from suing Earlier by making him faith-
full promises to Comply by such Time and might perhaps
likewise in Dealing been allowed a Consideration for such
Promise of prompt Payment which we think the Respective
Judges might have been Reasonably allowed to Judge of.
Those and many such like Considerations Naturally arise on
the proposed Amendment and we should have taken it kindly
if you had given your selves the Trouble of Informing us of
such Reasons as weighed with you to Reject the Proposal
that we might have had the Opportunity of being Convinced
by your Reasons, rather than Compelled to Drop it by your
Peremptory Refusal. However Gentl to show how much we
study to avoid Contest we refer these Remarks to your Con-
sideration and Assent to the Bill either with or without
Amendment
Signed p Order John Beale Clk Up. Ho

Which was Read and past for Engroseing without that
Amendment and was sent to the Committee of Laws to be
Engrosed.
Bill for Limiting the Continuance of Actions &c. Read
the first and second Times by especial Order and will Pass ;
which being so Endorst and Sent to the Upper House by Coll
Maxwell and M^r Tyler They Return and say they have De-
livered it.
The Petition of Thom^s Boardley & Thomas Larkin Esq^rs
Read and Referred for Hearing till to Morrow in the After-
noon