The Lower House. 97

Coll^o Young from the Upper House Delivers M^r Speaker
the Supplementary Bill to the Act Laying an Imposition on
Negroes thus Endorst viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 25^th 1720.

This Bill being read will pass with the following Amend-
ments to be Incerted instead of the Several Words markt
therein viz: first (Suggesting) instead of Importing 2^dly
These words (Defrauding of the publick) instead of those
next markt 3^dly Instead of the words the like (which) 4^thly
where the Law proposes the Oath to be Taken these words
(such Owner or Owners are Obliged to take the following
Oath You A. B. C. Do Swear that you are the true and only
Owners of the Ship E, and have Continued so ever Since the
time of the purchasing the Register by you now Produced and

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that you have not Purchased the said Vessells nor Obtained
the Register aforesaid to the use of or in Trust for any other
Person or Persons whatsoever, nor for the Sake of Evading
the payment of any Duties in favour of any Person or Persons
whatsoever that are not Actual Residents within this Prov-
ince) 5^thly Instead of the words Immediately following the
said Oath within these two marks [ ] These following viz.
(Provided that in Case any Inhabitants of this Province
Owners as afores^d shall Depart this pvince and go beyond the
seas about his Occasionable Affairs, and shall not be absent
there from for above the Space of Twelve months In Case
any Vessell should happen in his absence to require his Oath
as afores^d, such absent person's Oath in such Case may be
Dispensed with all the Owners Residents (if any there be)
Taking the same Oath, and the Benifit intended by the s^d
before menconed Act shall be Allowed to the Owners of such
Vessell.)
Signed p Ord^r Joh. Beale Cl: Up^r Ho.

Which being read was Sent to the Committee of Laws to
be Amended. The Journal of the Committee of Accounts
was read and Order'd to be thus Endorst viz :

October the 25^th 1720
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly and
Signed p Order M^l Jenifer Cl: Lo: ho :

And was Sent to the Upper House by the Gentlemen of that
Committee. They return and Say they have Delivered it.
A Supplementary Bill to an Act Laying an Imposition on
Negroes &c. brought Down from the Committee of Laws was

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