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

Original
Journal.

your own Royall hazard by Sea and
by Land to in all parts of Yo^r
Dominions and pre Wealth peace &
happiness, Do with unfeyned Joy congratulate your Ma^tys
Deliverance from Yo^r Enimys and Safe Returne from Flanders
to your Kingdom of England after so many Fatiggues and
Toyls of Warr undertaken on our behalfs We rejoice in your
Ma^tys good Success and in these remote parts participating of
the Advantages thereof (do next to Almighty God) ascribe
our Own & our Fellow Subjects Safety to your Ma^tys Cour-
ageous & prudent Conduct, humbly beseeching Almighty God
to continue the protection to your Ma^ty to prosper your Arms
preserve your Victorious person, and make you not only a
Blessing to y^r own Subjects but to all Europe by reducing
your Enimy's to a lasting hon^ble peace.

Kenelm Cheseldyn Speak: ffr. Nicholson
Tho^s Waughop Tho^s Smith Hen Jowles Chan
Rob^t Mason John Hamond George Robotham
Philip Clarke Edw^d Dorsey Nich Greenberry
Joⁿ Bayne James Saunders Charl Hutchins
John Hynson Rich^d Hill David Browne
Hans Hanson Thomas Tasker John Addison
W^m Frisby Francis Hutchins Tho^s Brooke.
William Hutchison

Lib. L. L. 2
p. 107

Att an Assembly held att the Town and Porte of Annapolis
the Thirtieth day of Aprill in the Eighth year of the Reigne of
our Sovereigne Lord King William the third of England,
Scottland ffrance and Ireland Defender of the ffaith &c Annoq
Domini 1696 Were Enacted (Viz^t)

An Act Impowering the Commission^rs of the County of Kent
to purchace three Acres of Land whereon to build a Court
house
Whereas by the Late Division of the County of Kent there
is absolute Occasion for the ease and Conveniency of the
Inhabitants thereof that the said County Court should be
houlden att some other place, in the said County then att the
p'sent Court house, and forasmuch as no place is allotted or
provided whereon to build a new Court house for the said
County Be itt Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maty by
and with the Advice and Consent of this present Generall
Assembly and the Authority of the same That the Commis-
sioners or Justices of the peace of the said County shall be and
are hereby made & Incorporated into a body politique with
sufficient power thereby given them whereby to Enable them
to Treat with buy purchace take hold and Enjoy for ever to