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pose it being an affair of the Last Consequence in Order to
Preserve Peace with the Indians in General
Sign'd p Order. John Beale Cl. Up Ho.

Thereupon Order'd a Bill be prepared accordingly. The
following Message was prepared viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly August the 5^th 1721.
May it Please Your Hon^rs.
This House on due Consideration of the Law for Regu-
lating Officers frees, do find the Same Perpetual unless the
Arrival of our Lord Proprietary (which God Grant may
soon happen) should prevent it: and Consequently no Oc-
casion of a Reviving Bill therefore
Signed p Order. M. Jenifer Cl Lo Ho

And sent to the Upper House by Cap^t Jones & M^r Waughop.
They Return & say they Delivered it.
[Bill for Ascertaining the bounds of the Indians Land read
the first and Second times by Especiall Order and will Pass
which was so Endorsed & Sent to the Upper house by M^r
Benson and M^r Edmondson. They return and Say they De-
livered it.]
Coll Ward from the Upper House Delivers M^r Speaker the
following Message Viz :

By the Upper House of Assembly
August the 5^th 1721.
Gent. By Your Answer to Our Message concerning the
Chancellor's Copying the Laws, We Observe you have drawn
your Conclusion from a Mistaken Principle for the Chancellor

L. H. J.

is not Obliged to Remitt (as you are pleased to term it) the
Laws that are made to his Lordship. We take it the same
Publick that makes Laws, ought to pay the Charges of them,
And this we Esteem a Necessary one; Since Our Lord Prop^ry
cannot Judge of nor Assent to them without having them
Transmitted him; which is his Right to have. And we think
it strange you should still insist on this Matter, nor can we
guess at the Reason of it. We desire your Calm Considera-
tion and that if you have any well grounded Reasons to Alter
so long continued an Allowance, You'l let us know them; for
that as no Law Obliges any person to do his Service ex Officio ;
we know no Reason for it.
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