The Upper House. 59

Sent by Col^o Holland.
A Bill from the Lower House by Captain Harrison & W
Hudson Intituled An Act explaining a Paragraph of the
Supplementary Act to the Act intituled An Act directing the
manner of electing and summoning Delegates &c^a thus in-
dorsed viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly October the 30^th 1724

Read the first and second times by especial Order and will
Pass
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

Which Bill being read was thus endorsed viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October 30^th 1724.
Read and will Pass.
Signed p Order Sam^l Skippon CL Up. Ho.

Sent by Esq^r Hall
A Bill from the Lower House by M^r Edward Wright &
Captain Hooper intituled An Act reviving and continuing
the Act for Limitation of Officers fees and for supplying some
defects therein and for Amendment thereof in some particu-
lars and restraining some ill Practices of Sheriffs and for
making Flax and Hemp Current in Payment of debts thus
endorsed viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly October 30^th 1724

Read the first and second times by especial Order and will
Pass
Sign'd p order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

A Message from the Lower House by Captain Dashiel &
M^r Young viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly Oct. 30^th 1724.
May it please your Honours
We thankfully accept your Honours kind promises of your
Endeavours to Accomplish so good a Work as the preventing
the inconveniences that arise from the present frequent differ-
ences betwixt the People and Sheriff and therefore if the Ob-
jections in your Honours Message of this Instant by M^r
Rousby can be removed we hope we may then lay a just Claim
to the promise of your endeavours in this part & we hope your
first Objection will not remain with you when your Honours

U. H. J.