The Lower House. 437

We find that from the Mark in the Plat at O, the first
Course and Distance of Darby will Very near Answer to the
Mouth of Secretary's Creek as Described in the Plat and
According to that, Indian Neck for the most part will be In-
cluded in Darby. And then there will be about two thousand
Six hundred Acres in the whole besides water of Darby, and
the Indian Neck included within the Indian bounds, as to the
Quality of the Land (if found as above) we referr to the
Information that Severall Members Can Give to the House.
Wee find by the Information of the Comissioners Im-
powered to Examine Evidences by Virtue of a Comission out
of the high Court of Chancery concerning the bounds of the
above Menconed Lands that M^r Peter Taylor who was Sup-
posed and we Verily believe to be a Material Evidence thereto
Absolutely refused being Sworn before the Corn's to declare
his knowledge in the premisses.
All which Matters as above are Submitted to the Consider-
acon of the House.
Sign^d -p Order. Vachel Denton Cl. Com :

On Reading whereof and hearing the Allegacons of Maj^r
Sewall thereon,
Resolved that he be Allow'd Thirty Thousand pounds of
Tobacco to be p^d by the Publick for Six hundred Acres of
Land called Indian Neck Included within the Indians Bounds
and five hundred pounds of Tobacco for his Charges thereon.
And as to Darby the further Consideration thereof is re-
ferred till next Sessions and ordered that the said Peter Taylor
appear here next Sessions to Declare his Knowledge in the
Premisses to this House.

L. H. J.

Coll: Holland from the Upper House Delivers M^r Speaker
the further Supplementary Bill to the Act for the better
Administration of Justice in Testamentary Affairs w^th the
following Message Viz :

By the Upper House of Assembly 8^ber the 24^th 1722.
Gentlemen.
This Bill Intituled a further Supplementary Act to the
Act for the better adm^rcon of Justice in Testamentary Affairs
&c^a being read will pass with the foll^o Additions Viz: In the
second Paragraph the second Line of that Paragraph after
the words (Debt Due as af^d) the words (from any Other
Executor or administrator) and in the Last Paragraph in the
second Line of that paragraph after the Words (Sufficient

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