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Capt Codd and M^r Hanson from the Lower house Deliver
Col Holland An Engrost Bill ag^l Buying and Selling of Offices
& to prevent Corruption in Officers
To w^ch is thus written Viz.

Oct^r the 25^th 1720
Read & Assented to by the Lower house of Assembly and
Signed p Ord^r M Jenifer Cl Lo ho.

The Supplementary Bill to the Act Entituled an Act for Lay-
ing an Imposition on Negroes and on severall Sorts of Liquors
Imported and also on Irish Serv^ts &c. Sent to the Lower House
by Col Young who returns and Says he delivered the same
The Engrost Bill against buying & Selling of Offices and
to pvent Corruption in Officers being read,

U. H. J.

To which is thus written Viz
October the 25^th 1720
Read and Assented to by the Upper House of Assembly.
Signed p Ord^r Joh. Beale Cl. Up. Ho.

Mr. Hill w^th four others from the Lower house deliver Col^o
Holland,
The Journall of the Comittee of Acc^ts w^ch is thus Endorst
Viz.
Ocf the 25^th 1720
Read and Assented to by the Lower house of Assembly
Signed p Ord^r M. Jenifer Cl lo Ho.

The following Message Prepared Viz.

By the Upp^r House of Assembly
Oct^r the 25^th 1720
Gentl. Upon Reading and considering the Supplementary
Act to the Act for ascertaining the bounds of Land in this
pvince ppared by your house and Sent us by M^r Lee and Six
Others of your House we are of Opⁿ that there are Severall
Omissions and Imperfections in that bill which ought to be
Supplyed and which are as followeth
In the first Sheet we Observe you have Invested the Com^rs
of Review w^th a power of hearing and Determining all Appeals
to them made upon any Judgm^t hereafter to be given by the

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Com^rs of the first View & likewise to Review and Reverse or
Affirm any Judgm^t heretofore given by the Com^rs of the first
View Ag^t w^ch Petitions have been preferrd to this Assembly

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