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Read a second time the Bill Entituled an Act to Encourage the
Importation of Gold & Silver into this Province, & Ordered to be
thus Endorsed

By the Upper house of Assembly I^st August 1729

Read a second Time & will pass with the following Amendments
Instead of the Preamble in the s^d bill the following One be in-
serted; Whereas the Effects of the Scarcity of Gold and Silver into
this Province are very sensibly felt by the Inhabitants thereof, in
Order therefore to give a suitable Encouragement to any Person
who shall import into this Province any Quantity of Gold or Silver ;

U. H. J.

& after the Word Person, at the End of the third Line of the third
side these Words be added, for my Use with Design of bringing it
back again for the Allowance of fifteen p Cent on the Duties aris-
ing upon the Commodities by me now imported
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

Sent to the Lower house by Coll Tilghman
A Bill from the Lower house by M^r Hanson & M^r Matthews
Entituled an Act providing what shall be good Evidence to prove
foreign & other Debts & to prevent Vexatious & unnecessary Suits
at Law &c thus Endorsed

By the Lower house of Assembly I^st August 1729
Read the first & second Time by an Especial Order & will pass
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl Lo. Ho.

Read the first Time in this house & Ordered to lye on the Table
The Question being put whether the Additional supplementary
Act to the several Acts for the Administration of Justice be received
in this House? Passed in the Negative
The following Message being prepared is sent to the Lower
house by Coll Ward

By the Upper house of Assembly I^st August 1729
Gentlemen
We take it to have been the Constant Practice of Parliaments,
after Bills have been once read, & Amendments made thereunto, in
Either house, that such Bills together with the Amendments, or so
many of them as shall have been agreed to by both houses should
pass into Acts; it is Matter of Surprize therefore to this house that
the Bill for the better Administration of Justice &c with Sundry
Amendments & Concessions afterwards made therein, as by our

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