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Wounds in King W^ras Service, and poverty was read and
indorsed (viz.)

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 19^th 1723

The within Petition relating to a matter purely lying before
the Lower House of Assembly is Referred to their Con-
sideration.

Signed p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl. Up. Ho.

Sent with the Original Bills N^o 21, 22, to the Lower House
by Esq^r Rousby.
A Message from the Lower House by M^r Crabb and three
more viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly 8^br the 19^th 1723.

May it please Yo^r Hon^rs
We have Read the Report of the Committee appointed to
Agree with proper Workmen for building a Gate house and
Repairing the Town Fence and concur therewith And Capt

U. H. J.

Joseph Harrison is willing to undertake the Building of the
House and to finish the same Compleatly according to that
Report for One hundred and Ten Pounds Current Money;
and as to the Town Fence we are willing that Thomas Jobson
should procure Logs and set up the Fence and be allowed for
the same according to that Report with which if your Hon^rs
Concur the Persons may proceed thereon.
Signed p Order M: Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

To which Message the following Answer was prepared
viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly 8^br the 19^th 1723
Gentlemen.
We Concur with yo^r House in your Message this day by
M^r Crabb and three more
Signd p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl. Up Ho.

Sent to the Lower House by James Bowles and Benja
Tasker Esq^r
It appearing to the House from the Treasurers Acc^ts of the
Eastern and Western Shores annexed to the Journal of the
Committee of Accounts that there was a Considerable Sum
of Sterling money belonging to the Free Schools in their
Hand and Benjamin Tasker Esq^r having offered for the Bills

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