Assembly Proceedings, May 26-June 11, 1697. 579

divers publique uses in the said Laws expressed and for that
we finde there is sufficient money raised to answer the ends
therein proposed according to the true intent and meaning of
the House, We humbly desire the same or so many thereof
as seem good to your Ex^cy and this house, may be repealed
and abrogated, the said Impositions being very much Com-
plained of in the Severall Counties as given in charge to their
Representations.
Signed p order
W^m Bladen Clk of the House of Del.

Sent by Major Ennalls and M^r Saunders together with a
Bill for Reformation of Jeofailes, and a Bill for Quieting the
differences arising between the English and Indians.
Moved by a member of the house whither it be lawfull for
the Sherriffe to arrest any person on board of Shipp within
his Bayliwick.
Resolved that such an Arrest is a Legall Caption.
House Adjourned till 6 a Clock to morrow morning.

Wednesday June the 9^th 1697.

House mett. Cap^t Henry Smith appeares in the house as
a new Elected member for St Marys County.
Major Dent and Cap^t Hill sent along with him to his Ex^cy
and to his Matys hon^ble Councill to have him sworne who
returne and say they saw the usual oathes administered to
him which he tooke.
Whereupon he is ordered to take his place in the house.
Then came the hon^bLe Colonel Hutchins and Colonel Courts
and brought down from the Councill Board, the Bills yesterday
sent up.

A Bill for redressing the publick credite, read the first
tyme.
A Bill for aportioning the publick Levy read and Comitted.
Severall Quereis in a Letter from their Lordships the Lords
of the Councill for Trade and plantations Laid before the
house.
And are answered as followeth. And the 4^th Query, Viz:
That few or no familys are come in to this province to reside,
Especially from Pensilvania, and few or none remove from
hence to the propper province of pensilvania, only some single
persons mostly women are of late come from England or
Ireland in the quality of Servants about sixty soules; and some
few of the meanest Inhabitants to avoid the prosecution of
their Creditors have chosen to Shelter themselves among the

L. H. J.