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Order and past which was so endorst And sent to the Upper
house by Mr Oldham and Mr Bozman.
They Return and say they deliver'd it.
Mr Peter Taylor according to the Order of last Sessions
Appears in the House and on his Excuse is Discharged.
Philemon Lloyd Esqr from the Upper House delivers Mr
Speaker the fol. Message Viz.
By the Upper House of Assembly
Octr the 19th 1724
Gent.
This house Concurrs with the report of the Conferrees
Appointed to propose proper methods to relieve the Inhabi-
tants of this Province from the hardships they may Sustain
by the great scarcity of Tobacco and other Countrey Com-
modities this year and with the additions propos'd in yor Mes-
sage by Capt King and Capt Hooper with a further provision
to be made against such as shall be found Transporting
themselves out of the province
Signed p order Samll Skippon Cl Up: ho :
Thereupon the Committee of Laws is ordered to prepare a
bill accordingly
The following message is prepared viz.
By the Lower house of Assembly
October the 19th 1724
May it please yor Honors
We have Compared yor Honors message of the 16th Instant
by Coll Young with what his Honor the Governor was pleased
to say at the Close of the last Sessions & from his honors so
tenderly handing to us his remarks on our Debates, we are
perswaded that he did not intend such his tenderness should
be Construed as a Reproach to us and we should have thought
your Honours had proceeded much more agreeable to our
Governour's Tenderness in that part had you been pleased to
have spared the Term as well as the Charge agt us of Ingrati-
tude to his Lpp, a Crime which we shall ever Endeavour to
preserve our selves Innocent of, and hope our Debateing a
matter of Right in a Parliamentary way can never be Lyable
to such an Imputation.
We beg Leave to observe yor Honors Seem to reassume
the Debates that were last Sessions concerning your Al-
lowances as Councillors but do not find that you offer any
new Remark or Argument to induce us to Recede from
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