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Read the first Time the Bill prepared in this house Entituled an
Act for the better Security of Purchasers and Creditors and Or-
dered to lye on the Table
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
October 10

Thursday Morning 11 October 1753.
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
The following Message is Sent to the Lower house by Richard
Lee Esq.^r
By the Upper house of Assembly 11 October 1753.
Gentlemen
This house hath appointed Richard Lee Esq.^r to Join the Mem-
bers Named by Your house in a Committee to Inspect the Accounts
& Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Paper Currency Office
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Four Bills from the Lower house by Mess.^rs Stoddart & Shelby,
one Entituled an Act Continuing an Act Entituled an Act con-
tinuing An Act entituled an Act to Remedy some Evils relating to
Servants — An Act continuing an Act entituled an Act to prevent
the ill Practices of the Sheriffs in the Collecting and payment of the

October 11

Publick & County Levies An Act continuing an Act entituled an
Act for the Gauge of Barrels for Pork, Beef, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine
and Tare of Barrels for flour and Bread; An Act continuing an
Act Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled An Act
ascertaining the height of Fences to prevent the Evil occasioned by
the multitude of Horses & Restraining Horse Rangers within this
Province and to Redress the Great Evil Accruing to this Province
by the Multiplicity of Useless Horses Mares and Colts that Run in
the Woods; Severally thus Endorsed
By the Lower house of Assembly 9 October 1753.
Read the first time and Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
By the Lower house of Assembly 11 October 1753
Read the Second time and will pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo. H.

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