The Upper House. 369

And that a Clause be added empowering the
Comm^rs to deliver new bills of Credit to such Per-
sons as shall bring torn, or otherwise defaced Bills
to be vacated, & other Bills struck in Lieu thereof

U. H. J.

Sent to the Lower house by Coll Tilghman
Read the first Time in this house the Bill Entituled an Add^l &
supplementary Act to the sev^l Acts for the Administration of Jus-
tice in Testamentary Affairs, & Ordered to lye on the Table
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Eight of the Clock

Tuesday morning 5^th August 1729
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as yesterday
Read the first Time in this house the Bill Entituled an Act to
prevent the rigorous Prosecution on Sheriffs, Testamentary &
Deputy Commissary bonds & ordered to lye on the Table

A Message from the Lower house by Major Hanson & M^r Gor-
don

By the Lower house of Assembly 5^th August 1729

August 5

May it please your Honours.
In answer to your Message of 25^th of July last by John Rousby
Esq^r We propose the Dimension of the Repositorys therein men-
tioned be sixteen feet in Length, twelve feet wide in the Clear, eight
feet pitch, to be built with Brick arched over & covered with Tile
or Slate to have two Windows on each side & Shutters & Iron Barrs
& in the Inside of the house Boxes for the Books to be put in and
a Table, & erected within the Stadt house Circle with which We
desire your Honours to concur
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

An Engrossed bill from the lower house by M^r King & M^r Cham-
berlin Entituled an Act providing what shall be good Evidence to
prove foreign & other debts & to prevent vexatious & unnecessary

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p. 68

p. 2. L. 2.

There being a Deficiency of Three hundred &
ninety pounds to compleat the sum of Twenty four
thousand pounds, it is proposed that Sum be emit-
ted in Six penny Bills

Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.