A Bill from the Lower House by Mess:rs Adams & Waters Ent.d
An Act for Erecting a Town at the head of Wiccomoco River in
somerset County for laying out into Lotts fifty Acres of Land in
the Fork thereof and at the Landing formerly called Handys or Carrs
Landing thus Endorsed
By the Lower House of Assembly 3d of Nov:r 1763
Read the first time and Ordered to lye on the Table
signed p Order MMacnemara Clk. Lo. Ho.
By the Lower House of Assembly, Qth Nov:r 1763.
Read the second time and -will Paee
signed p Order MMacnemara Clk. Lo. Ho.
The following Message is Sent by Mess:rs Addams & Waters
By the Lower House of Assembly 9 Nov:r 1763.
May it please your Honours
We herewith return you the Bill Entituled An Act for the Ad-
vancement of Justice and on due Consideration of your Proposed
Amendments have agreed to all but the first and Second and the
last as Consequent to the Second
Your first Amendment 'tis true would reduce the Speedy Tryal
Clause in the Bill to the same as it stood [The message which begins
thus is printed in full in the Lower House journal pp. 364-365]
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