356 Assembly Proceedings, July 10-August 8, 1729.

U. H. J.
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all your Amendments & Concessions to the bill Entituled an Act
for the better Administration of Justice in Testamentary affairs,
granting Administrations, Recovery of Legacies, securing filial
Portions, & Distribution of Intestates Estates, and for repealing
the several Laws therein mentioned, for the fact is quite otherwise,
But as several things were agreed to by your Honours & this house
as Amendments, Additions and Alterations necessary to be made
to the several Acts in Testamentary Affairs &c We thought it more
advantagious to the Country to pass a bill containing what were so
agreed to, than to spend the Countrys money & our own time in
controverting Points which your Honours had declared you could
not or would not concede to, & which We could not depart from
(as we conceive) without doing a great deal of Injury to Our
Country. And we believe Our Proceedings in that manner, as well
as in keeping a Bill began in our own house, to which your Hon-
ours proposed several Amendments we could not agree to, to be
agreeable to the Practice of Parliament, and Our Duty, and that
your Honours could not reasonably suppose that We had agreed
to any of your Amendments that the last Bill sent you did not con-
tain: However if Your Honours will still reject a Bill, confessedly
beneficial to the People we represent, We shall enjoy the Satisfac-
tion w^ch always accompanys the faithful discharge of Mens Duty,
tho hindered of enjoying the fruit of Our Labour, & of the great
Expence the Country must be at by the Sitting of this Assembly
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Two Engrossed Bills from the Lower house by M^r Dashiel & M^r
Johnson the One Entituled an Act concerning the Parishes in S^t
Marys & Charles Counties the Other Entituled an Act for the
assessing Ten p Poll on the Inhabitants of S^t Pauls & S^t Lukes
Parishes in Queen Anns County severally thus subscribed

I^st August 1729
Read & assented to by the Lower house of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Read & assented to by this house & Ordered to be so subscribed
the Paper Bills so Endorsed are sent to the Lower house by John
Hall Esq^r

A Bill from the Lower house by M^r George and M^r Edmundson
Entituled an Act to aid the Proceedings of some of the County
Courts within this Province thus Endorsed

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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.