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Intentions for that as the Paragraph relating to Flax and
hemp by a reasonable construction of the words thereof made
those Commodities Current to all persons except for publick
or County Levy and the forty p poll and that your Honours'
Message signified to us that we should exclude what related
to the Secretary and the merchants with which alteracdns the
Bill would Pass; We made those Alteracons accordingly by
the words you seem to find fault with and therefore hoped
we should have met with no objection to it But whatever
misunderstanding may have happened in this matter we now
desire you to be perswaded that we cannot in a consistency
with our Duty Consent to the passing the Bill without that
paragraph.
Sign'd p order M. Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

Resolved that the Chancellor be allowed five hundred
pounds of Tobacco for each body of the Laws of this Ses-
sions for the severall Counties and the provinciall Court and
to the Upper & Lower house of Assembly and for a Coppy of
the Body of Laws to send to England Six hundred pounds
of Tobacco
The House Adjourns till Monday morning nine of the
Clock.

Monday Nov^r 2^d 1724
The House meets according to Adjournment.
Saturday's proceedings are read
The Journall of the Commissioners appointed to view the
publick Records was read and Thereupon the following Mes-
sage is ppos'd

By the Lower House of Assembly, Nov^r 2^d 1724
May it please your Honours
On Reading the Journall herewith Sent and on Enquirey
whether any Bonds are given by the Hon^ble the Secretary
& the Com^rys Generall to keep in repair the publick Records
in their Several Offices which are adjudged by the Com-
mission^rs Appointed to View the Public Records to be in good
repair, We only find that the Hon^ble William Holland and
Tho. Addison Esq^rs two of the Com^rys Generall have given
Security pursuant to the Supplementary Act for the Repair-
ing the Publick Records for the Records in their office &
according to the Direction of the Commission" And as to the
Secretary We find that there is no Bond yet by him Given
pursuant to the said Act and the Directions of the Com^rs

L. H. J.