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Sent to the Lower house with the following Message by Col Tilgh-
man and Col Ward
By the Upper House of Assembly 4th August 1732
Gentlemen.
On Reading the Bill herewith sent We Apprehend the Trouble to
the Comrs in the Executing there Duty is Considerably more than
at first We Conceived it to be; We therefore propose if you think
fitt that their Allowance Annually during their Continuance in that
office be fifty pounds
Signed p order John Ross Cl. Up Ho.
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Eight of the Clock
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Aug. 5
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Saturday Morning 5th August 1732
This house met again According to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday
The following Message being prepared is sent to the lower House
by Michael Howard Esqr
By the Upper house of Assembly 5th August 1732.
Gentlemen.
We have read & Considered your Message of this Day by Mr
Dashiel & three more relateing to the Prisoners in the severall Goals
in this Province, and have the same Compassionate Regard for those
who are really objects of Charity which you are pleased to Express
But as we could not think it Justifiable by Extending Our Charity
to one person to do a Manifest Injustice to Another We therefore
thought it Necessary to make a Resolve of this house the last Session,
Obliging all persons who Intended to Apply for the passing of
private Laws to give timely Notice to such persons as might be con-
cerned therein that they might have an Oppertunity to Assert their
Right when such Applications were made
And that no persons might be surprized by this resolve Copies of
it were sent into all the Counties in this Province, and ordered to
be published by the several Sheriffs in whose Custody the Prisoners
are, and who doubtless gave notice of it to such as were in their
Custody, and yet those Prisoners are Careless of Complying with this
Resolve, as they have been heretofore in paying their Just Debts, or
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