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Read the first Time in this house & Ordered to lye on the Table
A Message from the Lower house by Mrs Ward and Wilson
By the Lower house of Assembly 1 April 1736
May it please your Honours
By a Report from the Committee of Accounts this Session Copy
whereof is herewith sent this house observes that Mr William Rogers
hath received One hundred pounds Current money at two separate
Payments f 50 Each time instead of fifty pounds allowed him on his
Petition preferred to your Honours, and this house last Session for
some Services by him done in the Paper Currency Office he well
knowing at the same time he received the last fifty pounds that he
had but a Day or two before then received One fifty pounds & that
that was the sum allowed him on his Petition And this house having
called the said William Rogers before them and acquainted him
with such Discovery, at his request allowed him time to give in his
Answer thereto, which he having done the same is herewith sent;
And this house thinking it highly reasonable he should refund to the
Country fifty pounds as being so much more than was allowed or
intended him as a Recompense for the Services he had done desire
your Honours Concurrence therein
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
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 with the Addition of Benjamin Tasker
Esqr
A Bill from the Lower house by Mrs Smith and Trippe Entituled
an Act to alter the times for holding the Assizes & Provincl Courts
and to appoint the said Courts to be held at the times therein men-
tioned thus Endorsed
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