72 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 20-Oct. 18, 1694.

Original
Journal.

ping where ffive hundred Saile of Shipps at Least may
securely ride at Anchor before the City, haveing alsoe most
sutable and convenient points of Land and proper places for
Erecting and building of fforts block houses and Other ffortifi-
cations and Edifices for the Security and Defence of such
Shipping, the keeping and preserveing the publick Magazine
and the Records of the Province.

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4 And as such and for divers other reasons then appeare-
ing in the yeare 1662 a convenient part or portion of the said
Land was by the representative body of the province bought
and purchased for the building of a State house and prison
and twelve yeare after to wit Anno 1674 his Lspp: by and
with the advice and consent of the rep^rsentative body of this
province passed An Act for the building of a State house and
prison in the said place w^ch cost the Countrey at that time
three hundred and thirty thousand pounds of tobacco
5 That the Inhabitants of the said City themselves for their
further security in haveing the Courts of judicature and other
publick Offices and meeteings continued among them humbly
mooved his Lsp: w^th their free Offering of one hundred thou-
sand pounds of tobacco towards the Erecting and building for
his Lspp a dwelling house at West Sn^t Maries convenient &
adjacent to the s^d City w^ch Sufne of tobacco they duely and
punctually paid and complyed with.
6 His Lspp notwithstanding to gratifie the Request of
Some persons & Studying the ease and conveniency of the
people according to some motives to him then made, did in the
yeare 1683 remove the Records together w^th the Offices and
Court of Judicature, as also the Assembly then convened, to
the Ridge in Anne Arrundell County whereby the Inhabitants
in those parts finding themselves greviously burdened and
altogether incapable to make provision for soe greate a Con-
course of people became Suito^rs to his Lsp to remove to some
other place w^ch accordingly he soone after did to Battle
Creeke in Pettuxen River, where the provinciall Court after it
had continued for the space of three dayes, onely were (for
want of necessary accomodations) obliged to breake up
abruptly; great part of their business unfinished.
7 After all his Lsp haveing made tryall of the most prob-
ably convenient places for the holding of his Courts of Judica-
ture and other public Meeteings as afd found the same
altogether incommodious and most inconvenient and at last by
the Advice of his Covncill found himselfe obleiged to returne
to the first and antient place of Sn^t Maries.

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8 And for the encouragem^t of the Inhabitants of the
same, & the better to Enable them to make provision for the
accomodation of such persons as should have occasion to