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in Severall parts of the Country to make some Small Quantities of
Coarse Linnen & Woollen for their own particular use without
which they must have gone Naked & been Starved: Of these Manu-
factures we are Confident there are none Exported: And that very
few (if any) make Enough of them to Supply their own Necessity:
As to the Value of other Commoditys of the Growth and production

U. H. J.

of the Country Annually Exported Besides Tobacco we cannot make
any Estimate; Those concerned in the Exportation & who reap the
Advantages Arising from it being such as come from other parts
to purchase what the People can Spare which their Necessitys Oblige
them to part with at very Cheap rates.
Thus May it please your Excellency. We have given as full a
State of the Circumstances of the Country concerning its Trade as
we could. And we can Assure you that we have not Represented its
Condition worse than it really is.
Signed by the Members present.

Read the second time the bill Entituled an Act to prevent the
Clandestine runing or Importation of Trashy & other Tobacco from
the Colonie of Virginia into this Province and will pass with the
following Amendments, in page I^st line 6^th after the word, Entries,
incert the words, or within Ten days after, and in the same page &
line after the word, Oath, insert the words, or affirmation of a
Quaker, alsoe in the same page line 7^th after the word, they, insert
the words, have not nor,
Signed p Order John Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

Sent by Col. Ward.
The Journall of the Committee of Accounts being read is As-
sented to by this House, and Sent to the lower House by Col.
Tilghman.

A Message from the lower House by M^r Beale & M^r George

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By the lower House of Assembly September 4^th 1731
May it please Yo^r Honours.
This House hath Appointed Col. Mackall, Col. Greenfield M^r
Harris, M^r Beale Col. Fendall Col Gale, M^r Holliday, Col Ennals
M^r George M^r Hamilton, M^r Crabb and M^r Hemsley Members of
this House to Join any Members your Honours shall Appoint of
your House as a Committee for laying the publick Levy.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

'Adjourned till Monday Morning Eight a Clock.

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