The Lower House. 39 I

Samuel Chamberlaine, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to
M.^r Speaker the Bill entituled, A further additional Supplementary
Act to the Act entituled, An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco,
&c. Indorsed, By the Upper House of Assembly, April 24, 1756.
Read the second Time, and will not pass.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.

The House adjourns until Monday Morning at 8 of the Clock.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
April 24
p. 250

Monday Morning, 26^th April, 1756.

The House met according to Adjournment: All the Members
appeared as on Saturday, except Capt. Tolley, Capt. Smith, Capt.
Ward, Capt. Crabb, and Capt. Sprigg.
M.^r Govane and M.^r Reynolds appeared in the House.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
His Excellency the Governor communicated to M.^r Speaker the fol-
lowing Message, viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
I send, for your Perusal, some Letters that I received Saturday
and Yesterday from Virginia; they may perhaps serve to convince
you, that the Frontier Inhabitants of that Province are in a most
deplorable Situation, and that the Fears of our back Inhabitants also
are not altogether without Foundation.
April 26.^th 1756 Hor.^o Sharpe.

The Bill entituled, An Act continuing an Act entituled, An Act
directing the Manner of punishing Fornication, &c. was read the
second Time and will pass; and was sent to the Upper House by
M.^r Carroll and M.^r Jenifer.
Col. Henry, from the Committee of Laws, brings in and delivers
to M.^r Speaker a Bill entituled, An Act to repeal all Laws heretofore
made for the Destruction of Crows and Squirrels, so far as relates
to the Counties therein mentioned, which was read the first time, and
ordered to lie on the Table.
The House adjourns until the Morrow Morning at 8 of the Clock.

April 26

Tuesday Morning, 27^th April, 1756.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Benedict Calvert, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r
Speaker the Bill entituled, An Act for Quieting the Differences that

April 27