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James Hollyday Esq^r hath Leave to be Absent untill Monday.
Coll^o Gale is Added to the Committee to Inspect into the Allegations
Contained in William Vernon and Keysar Knighton their Petition

L. H. J.

Daniel Dulany Esq^r from the Committee of Laws Appointed to
make an Inspection into the nature of Oath of Judge or Justice
brought in their Report read it in his place & Delivered it in at the
board. (The Report was this Viz)

By the Committee of Laws June the 5th 1730

Your Committee having Considered the Oath of Judge or Justice
recommended by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary which
is Entred on the Journal of October Sessions One thousand Seven
hundred & Twenty Eight the Observations made thereon which were
then Reported to the House and Concurred in what was mentioned
in the Address of this House to the Governour and in the Several
Messages Sent to the Upper House We Cannot conceive it consistent
with the Safety of the People to have the Oath so recommended
Established by Act of Assembly for the reasons appearing on the
said Journal, which We see no Cause to recede from, However to
put the best and Speediest End to an Affair of the Last Consequence
to the Country that we Can, by Avoiding disputes about any par-
ticular words or Phrases Provided we have the benefit of the Laws
of our Mother Country Secured to us without which your Com-
mittee conceive We cannot be Secure in any thing.
Your Committee propose the following Alteration,
That instead of these words Viz. According to the Laws
Statutes and reasonable Customs of England Agreable to the Usage
and Constitution of this Province the following words be incerted
Viz.
According to the Reasonable Customs of England and the Laws
and Statutes thereof as are or shall hereafter be Enacted agreable to
the Usage or Constitution of this Province.
And Submit the same to the Consideration of the House.
Signed p Order W^m Ghiselin Cl. Com.

The House unanimously Concurred with the said Report and
ordered the Committee of Laws to prepare a bill to Ascertain the
form of Oath of Judge or Justice Conformable thereof.

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Ordered that the Committee of Laws prepare a bill to Confirm
the payments made under the late Tobacco Law.
The House Adjourned untill Two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Friday at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon.

The House met According to Adjournment, The Members were
Called and Present as in the Morning Except M^r Mathews.

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