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The Speaker and the whole House withdrew
Adjourned till to Morfow Morning Nine of the Clock.

U. H. J.

Friday Morning II^th July 1729
Present as Yesterday
This House met again according to Adjournment
A Message from the Lower House by M^r Crabb and M^r Stough-
ton

By the Lower House of Assembly 11^th July 1729
May it please Your Honours
This house in Order to expedite the publick business hath resolved
to sit from Eight of the Clock in the forenoon until twelve and from
two in the Afternoon until six and desire to know if the time pro-
posed be agreeable to your Honours
Sign'd p Order M. Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

To which the following Answer is prepared & sent to the Lower
House by Coll Rider viz.

By the Upp^r House of Assembly 11^th July 1729
Gentlemen
The Times of sitting for the Dispatch of the Publick Business of
this Province proposed in your Message of this Day by M^r Crabb
and M^r Stoughton are agreed to by this House
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

July 11

James Holyday Esq^r and M^r Stoughton from the Lower House
attend with Coll William Ennals One of the Members Elected for
Dorchester County in Order to see him Qualified.
Whereupon the said William Ennals takes the Oaths to the Gov-
ernment appoint'd to be taken by Act of Assembly and subscribes
the Oath of Abjuration and Test according to the Direction of the
said Act, and then they withdrew
Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Friday Afternoon 11^th July 1729
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning with the Addition of John Hall and
Philip Lee Esq^rs

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