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Ordered that Collonel Thomas Brooke dismisse his men
now in Armes under his Comand, and that they goe home
and be in a readynesse at an houres warning to attend such
further Orders as the Deputy Governour and Counsell shall
thinke fitt.
Ordered that Capt John Peerce be allowed Out of the pub-
lique for provisions and drinke to the Souldiers under his
Coffiand at Mattapeny Garrison the summe of tenn pounds
of tobacco p day for each Souldier, and the said Capt Peerce
to give accomodations to Coasters as Occasion shall require.
Whereas the Deputy Governour the twentith day of August
last past Sent Comissions to Collonel Thomas Brooke Coll
Wm Burges Coll Samuel Chew and Coll Henry Coursey for
the suppressing of all mutines and insurrections &c where
they Coffiand. The Counsell doe approve and consent to the
same.
Whereas by an Act made at the last Generall Assembly
held at the Citty of St Maries Entituled An Act for the ease-
ment of the Inhabitants of this Province in Suits at Law for
small debts It is amongst other things Enacted that an
accompt Sworne to by the plantiff or a bill proved by his Evi-
dence before any One justice of the Provinciall Court or any two
justices of any County Court within this province shall be suf-
ficient evidence to prove the said debts in any County Courts
within this Province &c And whereas the said Act hath not
provided any way to compell the wittnesses resideing Out of
the County where the defendants shall reside to come to give
evidence for proof of such bills as shall be sued in any fforreigne
County: It is hereby Ordered that the Clerkes of the Pro-
vinciall Court and the Severall and respective County Courts
within this Province where any wittnesse to any bill under
fifteene hundred pounds of tobacco shall reside, shall from time
to time upon request of any plaintiff, sueing for any such debt
in any other County Court of this Province make Out his
Lopps writt of Subpena Comanding such wittnesses to appeare
before any One of his Lopps justices of the Provinciall Court or
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any two of his Lopps justices of. the same County Court as the
said plaintiff shall require, That justice may not be delayed
nor plaintiffs longer kept Out of their just debts and hereof
all Clerkes are peremptorily to take notice.
By the Deputy Leivtenant
A Proclamation
fforasmuch as Wm Davyes late of the Clifts in Calvert
County Wm Gent Giles Hasleham and John Pate with divers
others of the same County haveing formerly contrived a cer-
taine Seditious paper tending to the utter Subversion of his
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