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bacco Af^d I will preserve and be ready to pay towards the
Satisfaction of such debts as Af^d or some of them

And it is likewise the opinion of the Conferrees that it will
render the above provisions in respect to the second particu-
lar propos'd much more Effectuall if such goods as are at any
time taken in Execution for Officers ffees be made lyable to
the same Maner of Appraisement as is directed in the Act of
Assembly for Appraiseing Goods taken in Execution by writts
of fieri facias &c^a
All which is humbly reported and Submitted to the Upper
and Lower houses of Assembly as proper heads for a Law to
be made for the present relief of the Country.
Signd p Order Rich: Claget Clk Conferrees.

L. H. J.

Which was read and Approved of And thereupon the fol-
lowing Message is prepar'd Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly

October the 17^th 1724
May it please Your Honours
We have read the Report of the Conferrees appointed to
Propose methods to relieve the Inhabitants of this Province
from the hardships they may sustain by means of the great
Scarcity of Tobacco this year and Concurr therewith with the
severall addicons following Viz :
That Two Commission^rs be appointed in Each County by
the Bill to be brought in to receive Certificates &c
That a provision be made in the Bill for such persons as shall
have their Tobacco taken away by Distress or Execution
after notice of the Law and before the makeing their Oath.
That the form of the Certificate be incerted in the Bill and
that Relief be provided for such as do not make Tobacco nor
have any to pay away by giving them Liberty of paying their
Levies and other publick dues in money at the rate of Two
pence per pound Currency with which if Your Honours con-
curr the bill may be prepared Accordingly

Sign'd p order. M. Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

W^rhich was sent to the Upper House by Cap^t King and
Cap^t Hooper.

They Return and say they deliverd it
Daniell Dulany Esq^r from the Committee of Laws returns

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