The Upper House. 59

Thursday Morning Novem.^r 28. 1765
This House met according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday.
The Bill, entitled an Act for the Relief of several Languishing
Prisoners in the Goals therein mentioned brought, by Col Plater &
M.^r Parran with the following Message.
By the Lower House of Assembly 28^th Nov.^r 1765
May it please your Honours
This House agrees to all the Amendments proposed by you to the
Bill for the Relief of Prisoners, except that, obliging single Person
to servitude; However right it may be, in a general Insolvent Act,
that Persons of sufficient Ability of Body to Labor, & not having
Wives or Families, shall be obliged to a reasonable Time of Servitude
for the Benefit of their Creditors, upon their being relieved from
Goal, we cannot think it would be just in the present Case, as several
of the Prisoners, who will be the Objects of this Bill, may probably
long since have offered those Terms to their Creditors, & having
since suffered considerably by their Confinement in Goal, we hope
your Honours will not desire the Hardships of Servitude should be

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 28

added thereto. And as we are greatly affected by the unhappy Cir-
cumstances of the Prisoners, and especially as the extreme Cold
Season of the Year is nearly approaching, we hope your Honours
will not adhere to that Amendment
Signed by Order MMacnemara Cl: Lo: Ho:

The Bill entitled an Act to prevent the Mischiefs arising from the
Multiplicity of useless Dogs and other Purposes therein mentioned
brought by Mess:^rs Baker & Travers with the following Message.
By the Lower House of Assembly Nov^r 28.^th 1765
May it please your Honours.
This House have agreed to all the Amendments proposed by your
Honours to the Bill entitled an Act to prevent the Mischiefs arising
from the Multiplicity of useless Dogs & for other Purposes therein
mentioned except the 5.^th & the latter Part of the 12.^th Viz.^t "and of
the Sum which shall or may be allowed to the Clerks as aforesaid"
The Fund to be raised by the Bill will we apprehend be too small to
admit of any Allowance to the County Clerks out of it for their
Trouble, and rather than take any Thing from the Fund, for that
Purpose, we would agree to wave imposing that Duty on the Clerk, &
leave the Sheriffs to make the Charge against the People from the
Constables Original List, a Duplicate of which being lodged in Court
as the List of Taxables are, may be a Sufficient Check on the Account
to be rendered by the Sheriff of the Court.
Signed p Order MMacnemara Cl: Lo: Ho:

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