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Arisen &c^a and after some time spent therein Ordered the

following Indorsement to be made thereon viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 18^th 1723

This Bill being Read will pass with the following Amend-
ments viz.

U.H.J.

1 x Two Justices of the Provincial Court for each side of
the Bay such as the Governour for the Time being shall think
fit to appoint, shall be Justices of Assize, Nisi prius, and
Justices of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery, and that
the said two Justices or either of them in Case of Sickness or
other inability.
2 x And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid that that
part of an Act of Assembly Intituled An Act Causing Grand
and Petit Jurrors to come to the Provincial and County Courts
and Ascertaining their Allowances, made at a Session of
Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis the 26^th
Day of April Anno Domini 1715 which relates to sumoning
Grand and Petit Jurors to attend at the Provincial Courts
be & is hereby Repealed and made Void.
Sign'd p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl. Up. Ho.

And the Bill so Indorsed is sent to the Lower House by
Col^o Addison Col^o Tilghman, Col^o Ward, and Esq^r Bowles
Then the House took into Consideration the Report of the
conferees Appointed by both Houses to confer about the
usual Allowances to be made to his Lordships Council of
State, and prepared the following message thereon viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly 8^br the 18^th 1723
Gentlemen
On reading the Report of the Conferees appointed to confer
About the usual Allowances to be made to the members of his

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Lordship's Honble Council for their Attendance as a Council
of State, we find that you still persist in yo^r Resolutions not
to make any such Allowances, which has Occasioned us again
to peruse your Messages relating thereto, and consider the
Reasons you have therein given for such Resolutions where-
upon we Observe that you mention a Law made in the year
1670/1 for laying Duty of two Shillings p hhd on Tobacco
Exported out of this Province; one Shilling whereof was
Given to his Ldp for the support of Government, and for allow-
ing Convenient Salaries to his Privy Council, which was again
Continued in the years 1674 and 1678 for the same Uses and
you further Alledge that by the late Act made in the year 1717

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