Assembly Proceedings, April 30-May 14, 1696. 289

of their whole Proceedings as by them kept to the Governor
and Council in Order to be Examined and so to be done
yearly to be signed by all the Vestry men and Church Wardens
first for fear of any Accident by Fire that recourse may be

U. H. J.

had to them here 2^dly That it may be seen whether they keep
their Account right and that after such Examination they be
transmitted into the Court of Chancery thereto remain
6. That an Explanatory Law be made how the Clerks of
the Vestries and parishes shall be paid
7. To have a Severe Law made against Persons that take
up Wild Horses and keep them that persons meeting with
waif and Stray Horses about any plantations be Obliged to
take them up and Carry the same to the next Magistrate who
(if the said Horses be taken upon the Western Shore) to send
an Acco^t thereof to the Port of Annapolis with the Colvin
mark and size &c and if on the Eastern Shore to the Port
of William Stadt and Encouragement to be Proposed to the
Takers up.
That a Clause be Added to the Act appointing Ferries that
no led Horses be Ferried over Potomack River but such as
shall have particular passes and that the Ferry men be Cau-
tious how they sett over any Ordinary Person with a Good
Horse.
8 To Strengthen the Law for Regulating the Militia ac-
cording to the former Proposall viz^t in Given them more Power
9 That a Law pass to Effect what his Excellencys proc-
lamation touching Pennsylvania Trade bearing date the 17^th of
August past and another proclamation prohibiting Seamen
Travelling without Passes &c Bearing date the 25^th of January
following has prescribed
10 That an Act pass that no Testimoniall sent out of Eng-
land whereby to Prove a Judicial Proceedings be taken for
good and Authentick unless the same be signed and come out
of the plantation Office
11 That it be put to the Lawyers whether the Customary
way of Issuing out Commissions in Chancery for Examining
Witnesses in Perpetuam rei memoriam to prove the Antient
Bounds of Lands within this Province ought to be taken and
held for Legal Proof & whether many inconveniences may not
Arise through admittance of such Proof
12 That part of the Revenue taken by his Excellency Sir
Edmond Andros when he assumed the Government here to be
enquired into and examined by the House
13 That a Law be made for Parents to bring their Children
frequently to be Cathechized and that the Ministers call upon
them according to the Proposall made in September Assembly
Anno 1694.

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