Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 3-19, 1695. ²45

Resolved that it be incerted in the Law for Rangers that a
new Officer be added & the pay raised according to the pro-
posall. And resolved upon Occasion that the Rangers may be
furnished out of such Arms at the prime Cost.
As to the meeting of Enimy's or forraign Indians the house
referrs them to his Ex^cys ord^rs and directions therein.
That the two ports of Annapolis and W^m Stad^t may be
encouraged that a Court may be erected in them for the Dis-
patch of Merch^ts Suiters, and that the Land at Willm Stad^t
may be again layd out, and that 200 Acre be valued & paid
for by the publique or County and allotted for the publique
use, and that the Island be reserved for publique buildings.
Ordered that the Land at William Stad^t be again layd out
& two hundred Acres of land next adjacent be Valued by a
Jury and purchased for a town and Comon,and that the Island
be set apart for publique Buildings.
Also read in the house a Bill for the Advancem^t of Trade
in the two ports of Annapolis and William Stad^t the Contents
whereof being for constituting such Co^rts as proposed.

Original
Journal.

The house thinke fitt to reject the same for that within the
said ports there are not people enough to be had to serve as
Com^rs Jurymen and other Officers without going into Suite
for such whose busieness is to attend the County Courts, and
therefore the same is thought burthensome.
That the house would Quere whether the Act made in
Gou^r Copleys tyme for Navall Officers ffees ought not to be
repealed & especially that Clause relating to Shipps built in
the Country.
Resolved that the Comittee of Laws inquire thereunto
That the house would take into Consid^racon upon tryalls in
the provinciall Co^rt where the Vicinage shall arise that they
would inspect the Act relating thereto and propose Some
Salvo to it.
Referred to the Consid^racon of a full house on thursday
next.
That the Law for Regulating Appeals and writts of Error
be explayned, that the King be not bound up thereby from
Appealing for any Sume, And that in Case the Governo^r be
sick or a party on any Appeale the same may be heard before
the Chief Chancellor and 4 more
Tis the Opinion of this house that the King is not thereby
debarred from appealing for any Sume whatever.
And that his Ex^cy by Comcon and the Great Seale may in
such cases proposed provide for the hearing of Appeals
before such Chief Councellor and four more.
Also resolved by the house that if the principall Debt or
Damadge shall amount to or exceed the Sume of 10000^l tob

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