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For which Reasons we then Postpon'd our further Claims to
this present Sessions in hopes you will now Agree to those
Allowances which we take to be the Just right of the Council
for Attending upon all such publick Occasions as the publick
Weal of this Province should make their Advice necessary in
to the Governour thereof All which seems to have been con-
sidered by the whole Legislature where they resolved that an
150 Pounds of Tobacco p diem should be paid to every mem-
ber of the Council for their Attendance in Lieu of thirty
Pounds Sterling p Annum out of the Impost duty on Liquors
as appears in the Journals of the House Anno 1697 where-
upon we Again Recommend to your Consideration the mak-
ing of those allowances
Signed p Order Samuel Skippon Cl Up Ho.

Sent by Col^o Young.
Read the Message relating to the Stadt House and the
following Answer prepared thereto Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October 16^th 1724.
Gentlemen.

U. H. J.

In answer to your Message yesterday by M^r Hopkins & M^r
Dashiel this House does Appoint Benjamin Tasker Esq^r to
join with Captain Nathaniel Hopkins Captain Joseph Harri-
son and M^r John Oldham to View the Stadt House and make
Report thereon that the necessary Repairs may be made
Sign'd p Order Samuel Skippon Cl Up Ho.

Sent by Benjamin Tasker Esq^r

Read the Message from the Lower House by Col^o Mackal

and five Others of the 10^th of October and the following
Answer prepared thereto viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 16^th 1724
Gentlemen.
Upon consideration of your Message of October the 10^th
by Col^o Mackall and five Others we are of Opinion that what-
ever defects may have hapned in the forms of the Oaths to be
administred to the Judges of the Provincial & County Courts
by the frequent and careless transcribing of the Clerks ought
to be Amended and whenever laid before our House we shall
readily Concur therein
Signed p Order Samuel Skippon Cl Up Ho.

Sent by John Hall Esq^r
The petition of Margarett Jordan, John Jordan Martha

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