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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97. 137
At a Councill held &Ca Lib. H. D. October the 17th 1694 Present Provi & His Excency ffrancis Nicholson Esqr and all Mem County . Courts bers of their Majties Honobe Councill except Esqr Randolph. The board proceeds to the Regulateing and Settleing the Sevrll Courts wthin this province and in order thereto were call'd what Lawyers were to be had for their advice about the same who accordingly came Then produced and read a Provll Court Comission and Dedimus wherevpon his Excency Demands whether that forme will Answer in all points, the wch in the Opinion of the Lawyers is said to be Sufficient enough Ordered therevpon tht Com- Whitehall ission Accordingly Issue wth A Clause to be Add'd to the Dedimus to obliedge the Judge of the sd Court to Subscribe to the Test as well as take the Oaths, And that one of the Quorum and ifour more be Sufficient Numb' to hold Courts And one of the Quorum & two more Sufficient Number to Adjourne them therein and thereby constituting & Appointing the fol lowing persons to be Judges & Justices of the sd Prov' Court to hear & determine all Matters brought before them persuant to the s'd Comission Justices Appointed Vizt
Provinciall Court Justices Mr Robt Smith Mr Robt Mason Mr John Wattson Quorum Coll St Leger Codd Majr Jnoo Hammond Capt Richd Hill Mr Thos Tasker Mr Henry Lowe Justices Mr Wm Hatton Majr Robt King Coll Wells Mr John Pollard Justices Mr Edwd Jones Chancery Judges appointed. p. 59 Ordered that Mr Kenelm Cheseldyn & Majr Edwd Dorley Whitehall be added to the Honoble Coll Henry Jowles Keeper of the Great Seale for the hearing & determining all Matters in Chancery. Afterwards produced & Read a County Court Corriission and Ordered by Advice that the County Court Comissions be limited to Ten thousand pound's Tobbo and that no Action be Whitehall brought in the sd Courts exceeding the s'd Sume That one of
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