The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

834INDEXBills:discounts, 254, 285–86, 287, 290, 314–15,324, 339, 347–48, 349, 396; ratified, 40619.Bill for the more effectual relief of insolventdebtors, and for that purposeputting in force andeffectually carrying into executionin this province such part of an actmade in the Parliament of GreatBritain in the second year of Hispresent Majesty’s reign intitled “anact for the relief of debtors withrespect to the imprisonment oftheir persons” as is hereinaftermentioned, and to repeal the severalacts of the Assembly now inforce in this province for the reliefof insolvent debtors, 254–55, 291, 315,316, 317–18, 321–22, 345, 347, 348–49,371, 396; ratified, 40720.Bill for preventing as much as may bethe spreading of malignant andcontagious distempers in this provinceand for repealing the formeracts and paragraphs of acts heretoforemade for that purpose, 255,263, 284, 285, 312, 353, 354, 368, 369,396; ratified, 40621.Bill to revive and continue several actsand clauses of acts of the GeneralAssembly of this province, and foramending some of the said acts inthe manner herein mentioned,256, 263, 282, 283, 313, 343, 374–75, 377,378, 399; ratified, 40722.Bill for erecting courts in various partsof the province for trying and determiningsmall suits in a summarymanner, 291–92, 295, 37523.Bill for vesting the ferry over SanteeRiver in the way leading fromCharles Town to Williamsburgh,commonly called Murray’s Ferry,in James Hunter, executor of thelast will and testament of JosephMurray, late of Craven County,planter, deceased, in trust for andto the only use and behoof ofJames Murray, an infant, only sonand heir at law of the said JosephMurray, his executors, administratorsand assigns, for a term of yearsBills:therein mentioned, 293, 314, 356, 364,397, 398–99, 401, 402; ratified, 40824.Bill for dividing Saint Mark’s Parish,29525.Bill to establish the road now layingout from Days Creek to SavannahRiver to be a public road, and forestablishing a ferry over the saidriver, to be vested in Jermyn andCharles Wright for a term of years,31326.Bill to supply the defects in evidencewhere original wills cannot be produced,and to make the proceedingsupon questions arising uponsuch wills more easy and effectual,and for repealing so much of thesecond clause of “an act for makingmore effectual last wills andtestaments” as contradicts or repealsthe ninth clause of the “actagainst bastardy,” 318, 322, 323, 326,347, 349, 396; ratified, 40727.Bill to impower the commissioners forbuilding a church and parsonagehouse in the parish of SaintMichael Charles Town, to purchasea lot of land and house fora parsonage for the said parish,and to dispose of and convey in feesimple such pews as shall be builtin the said church; and for repealingseveral paragraphs of the act ofthe General Assembly of this provincefor dividing the parish ofSaint Philip, and for erecting thesaid parish of Saint Michael, and aparsonage for the same, 319, 337,338, 345, 346, 349, 395–96; ratified,40728.Additional bill to an act intitled “an actto ascertain the manner and formof electing members to representthe inhabitants of this province inthe Commons House of Assembly,and to appoint who shall bedeemed and adjudged capable ofchoosing and being chosen membersof the said House,” passed the21st day of September in the yearof our Lord 1721, and for repealing