The Lower House. 549

Carried in the Affirmative
Whereupon the Bill was amended accordingly and the
Question put whether the Bill shall Pass or not? And it was
carried in the Affirmative. Thereupon the Bill past and was
sent to the Upper House by Col^o Greenfield & the other Gent
of the Comittee of Laws.
They return and say they delivered it.
The following Message was prepared on the Bill for divid-
ing S^t Johns Parish viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly July the 20^th 1726
May it please y^r Hon^rs
This House being very well Satisfied by Information from
severall of the Members thereof that the Rev^d M^r John Fraser
hath declared to them he had no Objection ag^t the passing a
Bill for dividing S^t Johns Parish herewith sent, and con-
ceiving that if he had intended to have made any (as he was
acquainted such a Bill was to be bro^t into this House) he
would have done it before now and therefore We desire the
Bill may pass as it now stands.
Signd p Order M Jenifer Cl. lo. ho.

Which was sent w^th the Bill af^d to the Upper House by
M^r Crabb & M^r Gant. They return and say they delivered
them.

Jn^o Rousby Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker
the same Bill thus endorst viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly July the 20^th 1726.
Read and will pass
Signd p Ord^r Geo. Plater Cl. Up. Ho.

L. H. J.

Thereupon the Bill past for engrosing
M^r Edw^d Wright & Cap^t John Rider on their Mocon have
the Leave of the House to go home, They both being very ill
On reading the two petitions of the Inhabitants of Stepney
Parish in Somerset County, The Q' was put whether the Ves-
try or the Parishioners shall have the placing the Church.
Carried by the Majority that the latter have.
And Resolved that the Vestry of Stepney Parish af^d app^t
a Time and place for the parishioners to meet in order to
Choose a place for building a new Church And that it be
placed by the Major^ty of the Parishioners and that no person
shall vote therein but the Profest Members of the Church
of England as by Law establisht

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