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indispensable duty to make use of all means in our Power to
put some check to Practices so destructive to our Religion
and We hope your Honours at a further Opportunity will
Joyn with us in so necessary a Work
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.
Read the Bill for the Limitation of Officers fees and finding
therein some deviation from their Message and Agreement
from the Lower House in their Message by Captain Mariarte
and Mr Bozman this day the following Message was prepared
and the Engrossed Bill with the Message sent to the House.
By the Upper House of Assembly October 31st 1724.
Gentlemen.
Upon comparing the Engrost with the Originall Bill for
reviving & Continuing the Act for Limitation of Officers
Fees &ca we are Surprized to find this Interlineation to wit
(persons except) in the last side made in the Originall Bill
after it had past this House which makes an entire alteration
In one part thereof but as we are inclined to believe such
Interlineation hath hapned through mistake rather than
design we send you back both the Original and Engrossed
Bills that they may be Rectified according to the Alterations
proposed by our House and consented to by your Message of
this day.
Signed p order S. Skippon Cl Up Ho.
Sent by James Bowles Esqr
An Engrossed Bill with a Message from the Lower House
by Mr Tyler & Mr Taylor
By the Lower House of Assembly October 31st 1724
May it please your Honours.
We understood the Alterations made in the Bill for reviv-
ing Officers fees had been Agreable to your Intentions for
that as the Paragraph relating to Hemp and Flax by the reas-
onable construction of the Words thereof made those com-
modities currant to all Persons except for Publick or County
Levy and the 40l p Poll and that your Honours message sig-
nified to us that we should exclude what related to the Secre-
tary and the Merchants with which Alteration the Bill would
pass we made those alterations accordingly by the Words
you seem to find fault with and therefore hoped we should
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