32 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-May 28, 1737.

U. H. J.
Lib. No. 33

An Engrossed Bill from the Lower house by Mess^rs Denton and
Waughop Entituled an Act to cutt of the Entail of two Acres of
Land part of a Tract called New years Gift thus Subscribed.

25 May 1737
Read and Assented to by the Lower house of Assembly
Signed p^r Order M Macnemara Ci L. H.

Read and Assented to by this house and Ordered to be so Sub-
scribed the Paper Bill so Endorsed is sent to the Lower house by
George Plater Esq^r
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning nine of the Clock

May 27

Friday Morning 27^th May 1737
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as yesterday

A Message from the Lower house with the Journal of Accounts
by Mess^rs King and three others

p. 482

By the Lower house of Assembly 27 May 1737
May it please Your Honours

We have Considered Your Message of this Day by Philip Lee Esq^r
& Assure Your Honours that his Excellency not being allowed as
a Member of the high Court of Appeals happened by an Accidentall
Omission of the Clerk of the Committee of Accounts not entering
that Charge in the Journall, and that the Omission of not Allowing
a Sufficiency to defray the Annual Charge of his house Rent was
Casuall, both which are with great Readiness now regulated and
Sett Right upon the Journal; We are truly Sensible of the Capacity
as well as Integrity of the Chief Justice, and from our Sense of the
Extraordinary Services the Country Derived from his great Abili-
ties were induced the last year to make him the handsom Gratuity
which he then received and as that Sum was Considered as one
Agreeable for all his preceeding Services, so we cannot think the.
present insufficient to Support his Dignity or too small a reward
for his Services since that Bounty, the Addition to the Allowance
proposed by your Honours to M^r Ross is made in the Journal accord-
ingly; as to that part of the Message which concerns the Disabling
M^r Parks from receiving the Tobacco Allowed him by Law from the
Counties; We have Considered that Although he has Delayed print-
ing them so Long as deserve the Displeasure of both Houses, yet as
he has done them late, and that they have been received by those (or
at least a great many of them) for whom they were Design^d We do
not think it Just to disable them from receiving what the Law