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Which being read was approved of and sent up to the
Council by M^r Muschamp and M^r Mackall. They return and
say they delivered their Message.

L. H. J.

Col^{o
Jenkins, Colo
Lloyd, Mr Cheseldyne, and Colo
Ennalls
enter the House and delivers Mr Speaker a Message with the
Model relating to Itinerant Justices.
Ordered to be read in the Afternoon.
Bill against Divulgers of false News Read the first Time
and resolved it will not pass. Colo
Jenkins enters the House
and delivers Mr Speaker Petition of some Inhabitants on the
South side Wiccomoco River in Somersett County praying a
Town &ta.
Read in the House and granted.
Colo
Hammond and Colo
Lloyd enter the House and deliver
Mr Speaker a Message with some Depositions sealed up.
Ordered it be read and referred till Afternoon. Bill for pre-
venting the Exportation of Tobacco out of this Province before
the Duties payable be paid. Indorsed March 29th 1707. Read
in Council first Time and recommended to the House of Del-
egates Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Co.}

Which was read in the House the first Time and committed
for Amendments
Bill against counterfeiting of foreign Coin of Gold and Silver
Indorsed March 29^th 1707
Read in Councill the first Time and recommended to the
House of Delegates.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Co.

Read in the House the first Time and committed for Amend-
ments
Col^{o
Edward Lloyd from the Council enters the House and
delivers Mr Speaker a Petition of Major Wilson's and a Bill to
prevent the breaking open and concealing publick and private
Letters &ta
Referred till the Afternoon. The Petition of Philemon
Lloyd Esqr Read in the House and ordered it be read again in
the Afternoon
The following Message was read and ordered to be entered
Viz.}

By his Excellency the Governor and Council in Assembly
March 29^th 1707

Least any the members of the House of Delegates should
not be sufficiently satisfied of her Majesty's Royal Commands
for reducing the Number of the Provincial Justices to four of

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