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by an Act of Assembly on)] and that the Proprietor's pur-
chase be paid in Proportion.
Signed p Ord^r Job Beale Cl: Up. ho.

Whereupon the same Bill with the Amendm^ts was read and
Pass'd for Engrossing. The House Adjourns till Monday
morning Nine of the Clock.

Monday morning October the 24^th 1720

The House meets according to Adjournment Saturdays
Proceedings are Read. On motion of James Lloyd, he has
Leave to go home and so has Tho^s Edmondson on the like
motion Ordered that Thomas Bordley and Amos Garrett Esq^r
agree with workmen and find Materials necessary for finish-
ing the room over the new back building and to make it fit for
Receiveing the Publick Library, And, Ordered that the Com-
mittee of Accounts allow to the Rector Governor and Visitors
of the ffree school the sume of Eighty Six pounds thirteen
Shillings and four Pence Current money for the Rent of the
School House upon their Representation af ores^d to this House.
An Engrost Supplementary Bill to the Act for Limitting the
Continuance of Actions is Read and Ordered to be thus En-
dorst Viz.
October the 24^th 1720.

L. H. J.

Read and assented to by the Lower House of Assembly and
Signed p Order M: Jenifer Cl: lo: Ho :

And was Sent to the Upper House by M^r Mackall and M^r
Dent, who Returne and Say, they have Delivered it.
Upon motion of Coll^o James Maxwell for Leave to goe
Home by reason of News brought him of his Wife's Danger-
ous Illness, It is granted unto him &c.
A Bill for reliefe of Richard Cole and Mary his Wife being
Read the first & Second Times by Especial Order will Pass.
And being so Endorst, Is sent to the Upper house by M^r
Turbutt and M^r Earle. They returne and Say they have
Delivered it.
Ordered that the Comittee of Laws prepare a Supplimen-
tary Bill to the Act laying an Imposition on Negroes &c :
An Engrost Bill for the Confirmation of the Land therein
menconed to Richard Bennet Esq^r was read and Ordered to
be Endorst thus viz :
October the 24^th 1720
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly and
Signed p Order M Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho :

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