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Present as Yesterday
A Bill from the Lower House by Mess.rs Wilson and Dorsey,
entitled, A supplementary Act to an Act entitled, An Act for Limita-
tion of certain Actions for avoiding Suits at Law thus endorsed.
By the Lower House of Assembly 4. of May 1758.
Read the first Time and ordered to lie on the Table
Signed p. Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho :
By the Lower House of Assembly 5. of May 1758.
Read the second Time and will pass.
Signed p. Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo Ho.
Read the first Time in this House & ordered to lye in the Table.
Read the second Time the aforesaid Bill by especial Order and with
the Amendments herewith sent will pass :
The following Amendments are sent to the Lower House by Col :
Tasker.
By the Upper House of Assembly 5. of May 1758.
Read the second Time and will pass with the following Amend-
ments.
Leave out all the Words between, that, in the third Line of the
first enacting Clause to the Word, Administrators in the fifth Line
of the same Clause, and insert the following /All Actions of Account
Contract Book Debt or upon the Case, other than such as concern
the Trade or Merchandize between Merchant and Merchant their
Factors and Servants and all Actions of Debt for lending or Contract
without Specialty, leave out the Words did or, in the said fifth Line ;
after the Word shall in the sixth Line of the said Clause, insert
the Words /after the End of this present Session of Assembly/.
After the Word Fact in the eleventh Line of the said Clause insert
the following Words /shall be commenced or sued within six Years
after the Debt or Cause of Action aforesaid shall hereafter accrue
as aforesaid, and not after/. Leave out in the said eleventh Line,
the Words or to any; and insert the Words and no, after the Word
Non Resident. In the fourteenth Line of the said Clause insert the
following Words /whereupon the Debt or Thing in Action shall be
standing above the Term of six Years at the End of this present
Session of Assembly shall be good and pleadable, or admitted in
Evidence against any Person or Persons within this Province after
the Expiration of six Years from and after the End of this present
Session of Assembly/ and leave out the Residue of the said Clause.
Leave out the two Provisos in the Bill and insert as follows And
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