158 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 4, 1724.

L. H. J.

Thereupon the same past for Engrosing.
A Reviving Bill to the Act for Limitation of officers ffees
was read the first & Second times by especiall order and past
which was so Endorst. and sent to the Upper House by M^r
Edw^d Wright & Cap^t Henry Hooper.
They return and say they delivered it.
John Hall Esq^r from the upper House delivers M^r Speaker
the Supplementary Bill to the Act for Electing and Sum-
moning Delegates &c thus Endorst viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Octob^r the 30^th 1724

Read and will pass.
Sign'd p order Sam^ll Skippon Cl Up. Ho.

Thereupon the same past for Engrosing.
The following message was prepar'd Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly Oct^r the 30^th 1724.

May it please yo^r Honours
We thankfully accept your Honours kind promises of your
Endeavours to accomplish so good a work as the preventing
the Inconveniencies that arise from the present frequent
differences betwixt the people and Sheriffes, And therefore
if the objection in your Honours Message of this Instant by
M^r Rousby can be remov'd We hope we may then lay a Just
claim to the promise of your Endeavours in that Part.
And we hope your first objection will not remain with [you
when] your Honours consider there may be the same Regula-
tions for the Electing a Sheriff that are now used for the
Electing of Delegates and that the Sheriff will be under the
Restraint of all the Laws in force to prevent his Oppressing
those that have Voted against him, and will be under this
more weighty Influence that by oppressing one of those that
Voted against him he might Lose the Votes of many of those
that voted for him at the next Election and so have a period
put to his power of oppressing, And the People have Leave to
Chuse another in his room, who for fear of the like fate would
avoid the offence. And we conceive your observation that the
Appointing Sheriffs has been hitherto thought a branch of
the prerogative will not at all discourage our Endeavours for

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the obtaining what we propose as an Ease to the prerogative
and if his Honour the Governour or the Chief magistrate
for the time being is pleased to think it so, and Consents
to it, we shall then think our Selves easy in the remedy pro-
pos'd, and if not, it is yet offering to his Honour an oppor-