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6^th August 1729
Read & assented to by the lower house of Assembly
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

The following Message was also brought by the aforenamed Gen-
tlemen

By the Lower house of Assembly 6^th August 1729
May it please Your Honours
This house hath agreed to make the Allowances due to the several
Memb^rs of the Assembly & others from Saturday last in Cash & de-
sireth your Hon^rs Concurrence
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

The following Message being prepared is sent to the Lower house
by Coll. Tilghman

U. H. J.

By the Upper house of Assembly 6^th August 1729
Gentlemen
In Answer to your Message of this Day by Coll Gale & M^r Beale
this house doth approve of the Address prepared by the Committee
of both houses to his Excellency the Governor in Relation to the
settling a Correspondence with Virginia & desire you will get the
same Engrossed upon large Paper in Order to its being signed &
presented to him
Signed p Order John Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem.
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning
Read a second time the Bill Entituled a supplementary Act to the
Act Entituled an Act for improving the Staple of Tobacco, Ordered
to be thus Endorsed

By the Upper house of Assembly 6^th August 1729

Read a second Time & will pass with the following Amendments,
P 1 L. 16 the Word, Male, be left out, & in 23^d Line of the same
Page between the Words, Use, and nor, Insert, nor to restrain any
Servants or Slaves who are tradesmen from doing any such Work
for the particular Use of their Masters or Mistresses on their own
Plantation or Plantations; & in the 21^st Line of 3^d Page the Words,

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