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year Ending the nth day of January next and take his receipt
therefore
M^r Young and Col Greenfield sent to the House with the
following Message Viz.

By his Excell the Governour & Council in Assembly
Dec^r 4^th 1 705

His Excell being informed that the Suitors to the Provincial
Courts inhabiting on the Eastern Shoar are under many diffi-
cultys in the want of Attorneys on that side the Bay to manage
prosecute and defend their Causes from the beginning to the
End His Excell & this Board will give directions to the Judges
to swear and admitt the Attorneys of the County Courts on
that side the Bay (and now licenced by his Excell & this Board
to be Attornys of the Provincial Court and therein to practise
as fully & amply as any other the Attornys of the s^d Court
Signed p order W Bladen Cl Coun.

The Board adjourned 'till ten of the Clock on Monday
morning

Monday December the 6th 1708

The Council in Assembly Sate Present as yesterday
M^r Worthington and three other members bring from the
House Viz.

U. H. J.

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By the House of Delegates Dec^r 4^th 1708

May it Please your Excell
The Proposition about itinerant Judges laid before this
House by your Excell that we having a great many of our
members wanting the Season of the year and the Time It will
take to Consider of so weighty a matter do pray that it may
be referred to the next Session of Assembly
Signed p order R Dallam Cl ho Del.

In answer whereto M^r Young and M^r Lynes carryed

By the Governour & Council in Assembly
Dec^r 6^th 1708

His Excell and this Board having Considered the Houses
Reasons for referring the Settlem^t of itinerant Justices to the
next Session are well satisfyed therewith
Signed p order W Bladen Cl Coun.

p. 575