26 Assembly Proceedings, March 17-April 21, 1762.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
April 13

as great as what you have mentioned would be raised even in One
Year And as we Conceive a sum adequate to the purposes of Levying
Cloathing & paying the Men which you have thought fit to Vote
made be easily raised in the Province without creating such Con-

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fusion or discord among the Inhabitants as it certainly would be
occasioned was this New intricate System of yours to be carried
into Execution we are in hopes that upon mature consideration you
will agree to raise the Supplies wanted by some such simple mode
of Taxation as hath been heretofore pursued in this so that the
dispute which has indeed already to long subsisted between the
Houses between the two Houses of Assembly may at length be
happily terminated
Signed p Order Jn^o Ross Cl Up. Ho.

The Bill entituled an Act continuing an Act to exempt Persons
appearing at Musters from Arrest in Civil Cases Sent from this
House is brought from the Lower House by Mess^rs Lloyd & Wright
thus Endorsed By the Lower House of Assembly 6.^th April 1762
Read the first time & ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order John A. Thomas Cl. Lo. Ho

By the Lower House of Assembly 10.^th April 1762
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order John A. Thomas Cl. Lo. Ho.

Read in this House & passed for Engrossing
An Act to enable James Hollyday legal Representative of James
Hollyday Esq.^r dec'd late Treasurer of the Eastern Shoar to draw
Bills for the money therein mentioned
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

April 14

Wednesday Morning 14.^th April 1762
This House met again according to adjournment

Present as yesterday except Col. Lloyd

His Excellency the Governor Communicates to House the follow-
ing Message

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Gentlemen of the Upper House of Assembly
The Commissary General having by letter informed me that the
external Wall of the south porch of the Court where the Records &
papers of his are kept is in so ruinous a Condition that without
speedy Repairs that Office and the Records and and Papers there will
be entirely open to the Embezlement of any Person and to the Weather
I think it my duty to recommend it to both Houses to appoint a

Committee to inspect the Publick Buildings and to appropriate such