Assembly Proceedings, April — May 1666. 59

At 9 of the Clock the howse mett
present all as before

Then came a Member from the lower howse to desire this
howse to send the Act for the transmitting of the lawes to the
respective Countyes.
Vpon the petⁿ of John Lawson & acc^t for fees due to him
for M^rs Lees imprisonm^t The lower howse is desired duely to
consider this pet"
Then came a Member from the lower howse with the Act
for the Burgesses expences with their assent to itt
Memorandum on the 29^th Aprill issued out of the Vpper
howse of Assembly this following writt.

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Caecilius &c To the Sherriff of S^t Marys County Greeting
Whereas Marmaduke Snowe haveing obtayned an order of
our Pro^all Court of the 6^l day of October 1664 to haue execu-
con for 1000^lb sterl ag^t Thomas Gerrard Esq^r vpon which order
the sd Snowe sued forth a levari facias directed to our Sherriff
of S? Marys County which was returned executed by our
Sherriff but to the vallue of 299^lb 11^s 3^d 1/2 ob. & the s^d Snowe
there vpon complayning to our Provinciall Court held at S^t
Marys the first day of March 1664 of the same Court then
passed an order that in case the sd Gerrard would not produce
personall estate within this Province for sattisfaccon of the sd
1000^lb sterl. that an Extent upon the moyety of the lands
tenem^ts & hereditam^ts of the sd Gerrard should be granted to
the sd Snowe whereupon a writt was granted directed to our
Sher. of our County of S^t Marys thereby comanding him that
in case the sd Gerrard did not produce psonall estate within
our Province sufficient to sattisfy the sd debt of 1000^lb then to
extend the moyety of any the lands tenem^ts or hereditam^ts of
the sd Gerrard within S^t Marys County vntill the sd sume of
1000^lb sterl. due to the sd Snowe as aforesd. be sattisfyed which
sd writt being returned by our sd sher. executed vpon the
moyety of the Manner of S^t Clements in the sd County of S^t
Marys. The sd Thomas Gerrard brought our writt of error in
radicione executionis in vpper howse of Assembly held at S^t
Marys the 10^th day of Aprill 1666 & assigned for Error amongst
other things that the order of our Pro^all Court granted ex post
facto for an extent ag^t the lands of the sd Gerrard after Snowe
had chosen a levari facias was error. And our sd vpper howse
of assembly readeing the Records & proceedings of our sd
provinciall Court therein & viewing and Considering of the

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same did finde the sd order & Extent thereupon grounded to
be erroneous Wherevpon our sd upper howse of Assembly
Ordered that the sd order and Extent should be reversed &

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