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Sent by John Hall Esq^r who returns and says he Delivered
the said Message
An Engros'd Bill from the Lower House by M^r Dent and
M^r Pemberton Entituled An Act for reviving the Act for
better relief of poor Debtors thus subscribed viz.

U. H. J.

By the Lower House of Assembly Nov^r the 2^d 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 Col^o
Richard Tilghman who returns and says he Delivered it
A Message from the Lower House by M^r Waughop & M^r
Skinner (viz.)

By the Lower House of Assembly November the 2^d 1725
May it please Yo^r Hon^rs
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 yo^r 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 Nov^r 2^d 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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remedy proposed for the redress of any Evil Appears to be
more mischeivious than the Evil it self Common prudence
adviseth to the avoiding all such Remedys as hurtfull to the
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