218 Assembly Proceedings, July 18- August 5, 1721.

L.H.J.

Then the Question being put by what Time it shall be got

Ready? whether the last day of May or the Last of June?
Carried by the Majority of Votes that it be the Last day of
May.

The House Adjourns till One of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Post Meridiem.

The House Meets according to Adjournment. And Ad-
journs till to Morrow Morning Eight of the Clock.

P. 26

Wednesday Morning July 26^th 1721.
The House meets according to Adjournment
Yesterdays Proceedings are Read.
The Motion being made and the Question put whether a
Supplementary Bill to the Act laying an Impost on Liquors &
Negroes &c shall be brought in to Exempt Persons from Pay-
ing Duty on Negroes that shall be Imported with them for the
Use of their Own Familys,
Carried in the Affirmative by the Majority of Votes.
Then the Question being put whether they shall be kept
two years or one before they shall be Disposed of,
Carried by the Majority of Votes, that they be kept two
years.

Order^d that the Committee of Laws prepare the Bill.
A Supplementary Bill to the Act for Stay of Execution
after the tenth day of May Yearly being Read the first and
Second Times will pass Nemine Contradicente Which was
so Endorst and sent to the Upper House by M^r Tyler and M^r
Caldwell.
They Return and Say They Delivered it.
Resolved, that the Door-keeper to the Chancery be allow'd
to this Time, but not for the Future.
James Bowles Esq^r from the Upper House Delivers M^r
Speaker the following Message Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly July the 26^th 1721.

Gentlemen. Having Read your Answer to Our Message
by Coll^o Tilghman relating to the Law for the Continuance
of Actions,

We are Apprehensive that your Opinion, that the Time for
Continuance is to Extend to the End of the fourth Court after
the Appearance Court will not have Sufficient weight to In-
fluence or Salve the Consciences of those Justices in the Courts
of Law who have hitherto been of a Contrary Opinion nor