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To which Message the following Answer was prepared viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Nov^r the I^st 1725
Gentlemen
This House Agrees with the proposall made in your
Message by Captain Hooper and Gordon relating to the
Clause to be added to the Bill for relieving the Inhabitants
from some Aggrievances therein mentioned.
Signed p Order Geo. Plater Cl. Up. Ho.

Sent by Benjamin Tasker Esq^r who returns and says he
Delivered it.
A Message from the Lower House by M^r Harrison and
M^r Tilden (viz)

By the Lower House of Assembly Nov^r the 1^st 1725
May it please Yo^r Hon^rs
We cannot but admire at yo^r Hon^rs Still being of opinion
that the Laws now in force sufficiently provide against the
Evils desired to be remedyd in our Bill directing the Dis-
posall of Servants &c^a Were there not Instances given you
of two persons now in Goal who cannot be Releas'd without
Endangering his Majestys peace, nor can be kept Confined

U. H. J.

without Burthening the Sheriffe with their maintainance, and

the masters with the Total loss of their Servants; we might
think your Hon^rs were only mistaken in the Case But since the
Law you mention relating to Criminals frees, nor any other
Law we know of any way provides against the Inconvenience
we give your Hon^rs a present Instance of, and that those per-
sons Comitted can't be restored to their Liberty without a
Violent Infringement of that right the people have by the
Statutes of England and his Lordships Charter to have the
publick peace Secured to them, and that the Masters have no
Benefit of their Servants labour whilst Imprisoned nor can
they sell them from the Sheriffs Custody whilst they are by
Legal Comittment to be kept there: we cannot but think your
not Assenting to this Bill must proceed from other motives
than what you are pleased to mention to us. If there be any
remedy provided in this Case Yo^r Hon^rs have not shewn us by
what Law, nor have the Magistrates or parties Concerned
had any knowledge or benefit of such remedy nor are we able
to find one for them from any the Laws now in force, tho'
Your Hon^rs are pleased to suppose one. If therefore the
remedy be such A one as is unknown or impracticable it
deserves not the name of remedy; but gives sufficient grounds
for such a Bill as we propose; But if notwithstanding the

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