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Board this House have nothing before them & are ready to
attend their Honours to compleat this Session.

They return and say they delivered their Message.
The Honble Samuel Young Esq^r and Col^o Tilghman enter
the House and inform M^r Speaker the Honble President com-
mands him and the whole House immediately to attend him
in the Council Chamber to compleat this Session.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

The House Adjourned to the Council Chamber and being
admitted at the Board M^r Speaker delivered to the Honble
President the several Bills agreed upon this Session being in
Number twenty six whose Numbers and Titles follow Viz.

Publick Bills

N^o 1 Bill relieving the Inhabitants from some Aggrievances
they lye under in Prosecution of Suits of Law

2 Bill reviving the Act for imposing three Pence p Hhd
on Tobacco towards defraying the publick Charge of the
Province.
3 Bill reviving the Act imposing three Pence p Gallon on
Rum, Wine, Brandy and Spirits and twenty Shillings p head
on Negroes and Irish Servants
4. Supplementary Act to the Act for Constables & declaring
what Persons are Taxables
5. Bill reviving the Act for Encouragement of Tillage &
Relief of poor Debtors
6 Bill against striking several Sorts of Fish
7 Bill reviving the Act ascertaining the Height of ffences &^ta
8 Bill for killing Squirrels
9 Bill for regulating Writs of Error and granting Appeals

10 Bill to prevent Victuallers and Keepers of publick
Houses from entertaining Sailors and trusting them for more
than 5/ in a Voyage

11 Supplementary Act to the Act for Stay of Executions

12 Bill prohibiting the Exportation of Neats Hydes and
Old Iron

13 Bill reviving the Act ascertaining ffees to Attorneys &
for levying the same by Way of Execution.

14 Bill to redress the great Evil accruing by the Multitude
of useless Horses running in the Woods

15 Bill restraining the Inhabitants from selling great Quan-
tities of Liquors to the Indians and to prevent false News and
Rumours concerning them &^ta

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