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Phil Lloyd Esq^r Sent down to you is of soe great Consequence

that the Landed Estates of all the province seems to call upon
your imediate Concurrence & Assistance for their greater
Security which they stand in very Great need of thro the Ill
State of the Offices, it seems to us to be no Great matter of
Consideracon to appoint Com^rs to repair the said Offices & pro-

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vide proper Boxes or Cases to Lodge the Books in to Defend
them from the weather and to Cause the books that have been
Transcribed as well as Others to be bound
Signed p Ord^r Jn^o Beale Cl Up ho.

Sent to the Lower house by Col Addison who Returns and
says he Delivered The same
The Engrost Supplementary bill to the Act for Ascertaining
the bounds of Land w^thin this province
Being read is thereto thus written Viz.

Oct^r the 27^th 1720
Read & Assented to by the Upper house of Assembly
Signed p ord^r Job Beale Cl Up Ho.

Col Ward sent to the Lower house With the paper bills of
the af^d Engrost bills & to Acquaint them that the Engrost bills
is Assented to by this house who returns & Says he Delivered
his message
The following message is prepared Viz.

By the Upper and Lower houses of Assembly
Oct^r 27^th 1720
On the Petition of Richard Thatcher against Matthew Wal-
lace And hearing the Parties on both sides tis Ordered that the

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said Richard Thatcher be restored to His full peaceable and
Quiet Possⁿ of in and into the Land whereof he was Lately
disposest by the said Matthew Wallace or his Lessee by Vertue
of a Writ of Possⁿ Issued from the last Provincial Court And
that the Sherr of Cecill County do make Restitution ac-
cordingly
And also Ord^d that all psons concerned in the Dispute of the
s^d Lands ppare themselves for a more full & ample hearing at
the next Sessions And that the Parties wait further the De-
termination thereof

By the Upp^r house of Assembly
Oct^r the 27^th 1720
Gentl. Rich^d Thatcher's Bill is referred to the Considⁿ of
the next Sess^ns And your Concurrence to this Parliamentary

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