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

L. H. J.

A Bill for Preventing the Making Trashey Tobacco and
for Bettering the Staple of this Province was Read the first
and Second Times by Especial Order
And the Question was Put whether it shall Pass or not?
Carried in the Affirmative by the Majority of Votes.
Whereupon the same is Past and Sent to the Upper House by
the Gent of the Committee of Laws and Six others;

Who Return and say they Delivered it.
Coll: Ward from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker the
Reviving Bill for the Regulating Ordinarys thus Endorst Viz :

p. 41

By the Upper House of Assembly, July the 28^th 1721.
Gentlemen ;
Whereas in One Paragraph of the within Act It is Con-
tained, That no person or persons Inhabiting within this
Province, not haveing Lawfull Licence shall sell by Retail
Unless Sold at the Common and usuall Rates of such Liquors
between Merchants and Others any Cider, Quince Drink or
other Strong Liquors to be Drunk in his her or their Houses, or
about his her or their Plantation on the fforfeiture therein
Mentioned: which words (unless sold at the Common and
usuall Rates of such Liquors between Merchants and others)
have been found to give Countenance to many evill practices
Among Handicraft men and Labourers to the great Damage
of themselves and Families as well as the Evil Example of
others. Be it therefore Enacted, that the said Words (unless
sold at the Common and usual Rates of such Liquors between
Merchants and others) and the whole force Power and Effi-
cacy thereof be and is hereby wholly taken away. We Do
further Recommend it to your House, if you see proper to pro-
hibit all persons having Licence to keep Ordinary from selling
Spirits and other strong Liquors in Other Houses or at other
Places than they have Allowance to vend them in at the Time
of the Granting their Licences (the County Court Houses
in Court Time, only Excepted where noe Ordinary keepers
Live) and Under the forfeiture in the said Law mentioned.
Signed p Order. John Beale Cl Up. Ho

Thereupon the Question was put Whether the Law shall
stand as it is without any Alteration or not ?
Carried in the Affirmative by the Majority of Votes.
Ordered that Thomas Bordley and Thomas Larkin Esq^rs
Appear on Monday Morning next to make good their Right
to the Town Pasture.