By the Lower House of Assembly Novr the 2d 1725
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly &
Signed p order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.
Which was read and Assented to by this House and ordered
to be so subscribed.
And the Paper Bill so Endorsd was sent down by Colo
Richard Tilghman who returns and says he Delivered it
A Message from the Lower House by Mr Waughop & Mr
Skinner (viz.)
By the Lower House of Assembly November the 2d 1725
May it please Yor Honrs
To Confirm the Instances we have given you of the Incon-
veniencies this province at present labours under for want
of such a Law as what we propose for the Selling Servants
Imprison'd, we herewith send yor Hon" for your perusal An
Account of Imprisonment fees for the two Servants now in
Prison, amounting to betwixt Ten and Eleven Thousand
pounds of Tobacco. This Sum has arose due for want of such
a Law as we now propose for the Selling them in time whereby
the Sheriff might have been paid his ffees without Burthen to
the publick and the Masters have had the Overplus and the
Servants their Liberty, in some part of the world where there
Liberty would be less dangerous to the Comunity than here.
We therefore desire your Honours further Consideration of
that Bill.
Signed p order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.
To which the following Answer was prepared Viz.
By the Upper House of Assembly Novr 2d 1725.
Gentlemen.
Upon Considering your Messages of the first & second
of November relating to two Servants Committed some time
agoe to the Common Goal of Annapolis, and the Law pro-
posed for relief therein; we are of opinion that where the
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