Killing Lambs Prohibited

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In pursuance of the Order of the Day, the Congress resumed the consideration of Mr˙ Morris' s motion for restraining the killing of Sheep, and the Order for reconsidering the Resolution to restrain the killing of Lamb.

And after some time spent therein, Mr˙ McDougall moved, in the following words; "I move that the killing of Lamb be restrained to the first of August next, instead of the first of November, as determined by a Resolution of the Congress on the 23d day of June instant."

And the said motion being read, Mr˙ Morris moved that the said motion be amended thus: "that the question be put, whether it is the sense of this House that the killing of Sheep and Lambs be restrained to a certain time."

And the question being put on the said amendment, it was carried against the amendment, in manner following:

Ordered, therefore, That the said amendment be rejected.

The question being then put on Mr˙ McDougall' s motion, it was carried in the affirmative, in manner following, to wit:

Resolved, therefore, That no person in this Colony kill any Lambs until the first day of August next. And

Ordered, That five hundred copies of this Resolution be published in handbills, and that it be also published in the Newspapers.