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Directs the which is offered to the House for their further
Consideration.

It is also offered to this Comittee as An Agrievance that
there is a fine laid upon every poor man that is sued and
Cost Thirty pounds of Tobacco in the County Court and fifty
in the Prov^l which were the Amerciam^ts Ten Times Those
Sums yet every man would think it Justice to Sue for a Just
Debt which is referred to the House for their further Con-
sideration.
It is alsoe Offered to this Committee as an Agrievance that
there is no Act of Assembly Provided to Oblige the Lawyers
to pay Costs of Suite when the Client is Nonsuited thro their
Neglect or Mismanagement which is referred to the House
for their further Consideracon

Signed p Order Ninian Mariarte Clk Cofnitte.

Coll. Addison from the Upp^r House Delivers M^r Speaker
the Bill for Encouragement of Tillage with the following
Message Viz :

By the Upp^r House of Assembly 8^ber the 17th 1722.
Gentlemen.
Wee are of Opinion that the evill Complained of in Our

L. H. J.

Endorsment on the Bill for Encouragement of Tillage &c:
is not at all remedied with relation to the Creditor by the
Methods proposed in your Message of Yesterday by Coll:
Mackall and five more, in regard that it puts him to a greater
expence than before, and yet Obliges him at Last to Accept
the same Comodities Mencdned in the Bill as Satisfaccon for
his Debt; for which Reason as well [as] for the reasons before
Given, We Cannot Consent that the Bill should pass
Signed p Order. Sam^ll Skippon Ct Upp H^o.

The House Adjourns till to Morrow Morning nine of the
Clock.

Thursday October the 18^th 1722

The House meets according to Adjournment. Yesterdays
proceedings are read.
James Stoddart Esq^r from the Comittee of Laws returns
the following report on William Wilsons Petition Viz :

By the Comittee of Laws October the 18^th 1722

On Enquiry into the Truth of the Allegacons Contained
in W^m Wilsons Petition
Wee find that the Grant therein Menconed to John Gray and

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