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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 29
p. 392
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appointed to confer with some of this House about that Subject
To-morrow Morning.
Signed p Order, Tho. Macnemara, Clerk Ho. Del.
By his Excellency the Governor and Council in Assembly, May
6th, 1715.
Gentlemen,
In Answer to your Message by Mr. Tyler, and Three Others of
your House, we acquaint you, that the Conference therein by you
desired, is agreed to by this Board, &c.
The following being prepared in Answer thereto, is Ordered to
be Entered, viz.
By the House of Delegates, May 6th, 1715.
May it please your Excellency and Honours,
This House agrees with the Proposal made in your Message of
this Day by Col. Coursey, Lieutenant-Colonel Young, Col. Thomas
Addison, and Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Tilghman.
Signed p Order, Tho. Macnemara, Clerk Ho. Del.
May 7th, 1715. Col. Matthew Tilghman Ward, from the Con-
ference about Revising the Laws, delivers Mr. Speaker, the follow-
ing Report, viz.
At a Conference between the Members appointed by the Hon-
ourable his Majesty's Council, and the Members of the House of
Delegates appointed by this House, held, &c. 6th of May, &c.
Then were Read the Two Royal Instructions, viz. &c.
And as to the Instruction relating to the Revisal of the Laws
of this Province, and sending a compleat Body for his Majesty's
Approbation or Disallowance, the Conferees are of Opinion, that all
such Laws of this Province, that want Amendment, to be re-enacted
this Session, and sent to his Majesty, and the Loards Commis-
sioners for Trade and Plantations, under separate Seals, and that
as to all other Laws of this Province, that seem to be good and
effectual, and want no Amendment, it will be fit they be transcribed
in Parchment, and sent under Seals, with the other, that a compleat
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Body of all our Laws may be collected together, and sent Home
for his Majesty's Approbation or Disallowance.
Signed p Order, Wm. Bladen, Clerk of the Conference.
On which the following Indorsement is Ordered to be made
thereon, viz.
By the House of Delegates, May the 7th, 1715.
This Report being Read and Debated, for that it appears to this
House that the several Laws of this Province now in Force, are
scattered and dispersed in several Books and Editions, containing
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