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being (by Special Order) read the first & Second Times. Will
pass, which being so Endorst And sent to the Upper house by

L. H. J.

M^r Rousby and Three Others.
They returne and say they have Delivered it. A Bill for
Supplying The Defects in the Last Will and Testament of
James Walker &c. by Special Order being read the first and
second times Will pass, which being so Endorst, It is Sent
to the Upper House by Cap^t Fendall and M^r Dent, who return
and say They have Delivered it. The Petition of Richard
Bennet Esq^r is Referred till to morrow morning. The Sher-
rif of Cecill County Appears and being Demanded whether
he returned the Writ of Election to him Directed with the
Indentures whereon M^r Stephen Knight was Elected Answers
he returned them Inclosed to his Excellency the Late Govern^r
and Sent them to the Sherriff of Kent County but what be-
came of them afterwards knows not. But for that it appears
to this House that he has not Done his Duty The Question
was put
Whether he shall be fined five pounds or Ten pounds
Carried by the Majority of Votes that his fine be but five
pounds And Ordered, That he pay to the Clerk Twenty shil-
lings to the Serjeant twenty shillings besides all his Charges
thereon Expended and to the Door Keeper ten shillings And
That he be kept in the Custody of the Serjeant till he pay the
same of w^ch being Informed he returns Thanks to this House
and upon Payment of the same he is ordered to be Discharged
Coll^o Addison from the Upper House Delivers M^r Speaker
the Bill for Raising a Duty of Three pence p hhd on allTobacco
Exported out of this Province for the uses therein Menconed
thus Endorst. Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 2 I^st 1720

Since you have not Thought fit to take notice of our Mes-
sage of the 18^th Instant by Coll^o Ward and Esq^r Bowles pro-
posing the Continuance of this Bill as usuall Wee are Content
that the same do pass with the following Amendment Viz.
Instead of the words in the Parenthesis (over and above
the one Shilling p hh^d heretofore granted for Support of
Government here) These following Viz. — Over & Above the
duties Imposed already on the Export of Tobacco
Signed p Order. Joh. Beale Cl: Up: ho :

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Whereupon the Bill aforesaid was Accordingly Amended
and read with the Amendments. And pass'd for Engrossing.

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