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Post Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment. All appeared as in
the Morning, except Col. Henry, Col. Hooper, and Mr. Sulivane.
Edmund Jenings, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker the Bill entituled, A Supplementary Act to an Act entituled,
An Act for issuing and taking out of the Office of the Commission-
ers or Trustees for emitting Bills of Credit, &c. the Sum of 4500 lb.
&c. Indorsed, " By the Upper House of Assembly, June 22, 1752.
Read the second Time, and will pass." The Bill entituled, An Act
for raising Three Halfpence Sterling for every Hogshead of Tobacco
exported out of this Province, for Payment of an Agent, &c. In-
dorsed, " By the Upper House of Assembly, June 22, 1752. Read
the second Time, and will not pass." And the Bill entituled, An Act
for reducing the Allowances of the Members of the Upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly, &c. Indorsed, " By the Upper House of
Asembly, June 22, 1752. Read the second Time, and will pass, with
the following Amendments: Leave out the Words and assessing the
Public Levy, in the Title. Leave out the Word Whereas, in the 3d
Line: After the Words no more, in the loth Line; leave out the
rest of the Bill, and make the Act perpetual.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
Which Amendments being here read, this House doth not agree
thereto.
The Bill entituled, A Supplementary Act, &c. for issuing, &c.
4500 1. was read, and passed for Ingrossing.
Col. Hammond, from the Upper House, delivers to Mr. Speaker
the Bill entituled, An Act for the Encouragement of the West-
India Trade; and the following Message; viz.
By the Upper House of Assembly, June 22, 1752.
Gentlemen,
We herewith return you the Bill entituled, An Act for Encourage-
ment of the West India Trade, with a Negative; because the Duty on
Rum and Spirits is appropriated to defray the Public Charge of the
Province; out of which Negroes that are executed for Crimes are
paid for; and the Commissions to the Naval Officers, for the Fifteen
Pence Sterling per Hogshead on Tobacco for the Sinking Fund, are
to be taken out of the said Duty: And therefore those Articles
ought to have been provided for, upon Abolishing of that Duty.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
Samuel Chamberlaine, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to
Mr. Speaker the Journal of Accounts, and the following Message;
viz.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
June 22
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