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Proeedings of the Council of Maryland, 1678-1681.
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*ariseing for
goods, wares
or other
things de-
livered
money or
goods lent,
or upon note
booke or
Accompt
without
restraint
to any summe
or Quantity
whatsoever
also all
actions of
trespass
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the case* quare clausum fregit, (provided noe title
to Land depends upon the triall of such actions)
Detinue, sur-trover, Replevin, Actions of accompt,
Covenant, waste, assault, menace, battery and
imprisonmt or Actions of slander for words spoken,
provided that in the Declaration drawne and filed
in and upon any the said Actions of trespass, quare
clausum fregit, Detinue, Sure-trover, Replevin
Actions of Accompt, covenant waste, assault, men-
ace, battery, and Imprisonment or Actions for
words spoken before mentioned the Damages laid
doe not exceed the summe of Sixteene hundred
pounds of tobacco. And therefore we command
you that at the certain dayes settled by the law of
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this our Province for holding Courts in our sd County, the
said Actions you enquire into, heare, and Determine, and
after judgement execution to award, Doeing therein what to
Justice appertaineth according to the Lawes and reasonable
Customs of this our Province, Saveing to us the Amerciamts
and other thinges to us appertaineing, and to all his Majesties
Subjects resideing here under our immediate protection or
tradeing within this Province their right of appeale and bring-
ing writts of Error in our Provinciall Court as now by law is
settled. And we command the sheriff of our said County
that at the Dayes and places by you or any four or more of
you to be appointed as aforesaid he cause to come before you
such and soe many honest and lawfull men of his Bayliwick
by whom the truth of the premisses may the better be knowne
and enquired into; And Wee doe hereby declare that it shall
and may be lawfull and we doe hereby Authorise and
empower any One (and noe more at any One time) of our
Justices of our Provinciall Court resideing and Inhabiting in
our sd County of Calvert to sitt with the aforesd Justices as
President in the heareing and Determineing all or any the
aforesaid Actions, And that such One of the Justices of our
Provinciall Court resideing as aforesaid and three of the
aforesaid Justices to be sufficient for the holding Courts for
the Determineing the causes and Actions aforesaid. Any-
thing aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding In Testi-
mony whereof we have caused the greate Seale of our said
Province of Maryland to these presents to be affixed the
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eight and twentieth Day of July in the Sixth yeare of our
Dominion &c. Annoq Domini One Thousand Six hundred
Eighty One.
Charles Absolute Lord and Propry of the Province of
Maryland & Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c To Capt
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