472 Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22, 1699.

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relievable in Equity from any Judgement given or obteined
against him in the Provinciall or County Court aforesaid
shall Exhibitt his Bill and proceed in Chancery before any
Appeal be Entred or Prosecuted before the Governo^r and
Councill and not afterward and that all such persons as
Conceive themselves Grieved by any Decree in Chancery
Shall be att Liberty to Exhibit his Prayer to the Governor
and Councill to review and Examine the same and that the
Judgment Sentence or Decree of such Court of review shall
be finall as afores^d unless as af^d the Originall Debt or
Damages shall Exceed three hundred pounds Sterling or
Sixty thousand pounds of Tobb^o as aforesaid then and in
every Such Case to appeal to the King and Councill as
aforesaid And that one Act of Assembly made att a Sessions
of Assembly begun and held att the City of S^t Marys the
Twenty first day of September in the year of our Lord one
Thousand Six hundred Ninety four Entituled an Act for
Appeals and Regulating Writts of Error be & is hereby
repealed and that all appeals and Writts of Error all-ready
made and brought or hereafter to be made or brought before
the Governor and Councill shall & may be heard by the said
Governor and Councell out of Assembly time any thing in
the Same writt any other former Law or Practice to the
Contrary notwithstanding And for th^t it may so happen that

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the Governor of this Province for the time being may here-
after be Concerned in an Appeal made or writt of Error
brought from the Iudgm^t of the Judgment of the Provincial
and County Court to the Governo^r and Councill aforesaid or
he otherwise indisposed or Absent Be it therefore Enacted
by the Authority aforesaid by and with the Advice and
Consent aforesaid that it shall and may be Sufficient in every
such Case for the Councill onely to hear and Determine such
Matters of Controversy whereof the first of the Councill in
Comission being then present shall preside whose Judgment
thereupon shall be definitive Except before Excepted in as
full and Ample maner as though the said Governor were
then Actually present and presideing any thing in this Act
to the Contrary Notwithstanding.

An Act for the more Speedy Conveying the publick Letters
and Pacquetts of this Province and Settling a Revenue on
the Sherriffs for defraying the Charge thereof.

Forasmuch as Severall of the Inhabitants of this Province
haveing been formerly Subject to great and Manifest inconven-
iencys by reason of pressing of horses under pretext of Carry-