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The Bill for regulating Amerciaments &c. was read with
the Amendments and Ordered to be thus endorst Viz :

By the Low^r House of Assembly 8^ber the 29^th 1722.

We have Amended the within Bill so as that we hope it will
be Agreeable to yo^r Message and that it will pass in your
House.
Signed p Order. M. Jenifer Cl. L^o Ho.

L H.J.

Which was sent to the Upp^r House by M^r Lloyd and M^r
Crabb. They return & Say they delivered it.
A Supplementary Bill to the Act for repairing the Publick
records &c: was Read the first and Second Times by Es-
peciall Order and past, which being so endorst was sent to the
Upper House by M^r Beale and Capt. Hooper.
They return and say they delivered it.
On the Referrence from the Comittee of Elections and
priviledges as to the Election of M^r Humphreys for the City
of Annapolis,

Resolved That this House will not make a Presedent of M^r
Humphreys but that for the future any person Chosen to
Serve as a member Delegate or Burgess that shall after such
his Election accept of any office or Pension from or under
the Government shall (According to the practice of the Brit-
tish Parliament) be incapable to sit or serve as a Member in
this House by Virtue of such Election.
Coll: Young from the Upp^r House Delivers M^r Speaker
the Bill for the better relief of poor Debtors with the follow-
ing Message Viz:

By the Upper House of Assembly 8^ber the 29^th 1722.
Gent.
This Bill being Read wee observe that the Amendment is
made so as to leave it a Doubt whether a Debtor may not
Tender the Severall Comodities menconed in the Bill before
he is Imprison'd by the Creditour which is a point we insisted
on, and you Conceeded to that Tenders should not be made
before Imprisonment wherefore wee desire that you will form
the Bill Accordingly otherwise we may be Justly reproacht
with partiality to the Officers who are upon a Much better
foot than other Creditours, as the Bill now stands which was

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never our intention, nor have you made any exception of
Publick Levies and the forty p poll nor of any forreign Trader
except only such as Trade from great Brittaine hither.
Signed p Order. Sam^l Skippon, Cl Upper Ho.

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