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216 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1707.
Lib. C. B. Mr Joseph Hill appearing before the board acquainted his ExnCy that he had been takeing up a Wild Horse and had got Some of the neighbours who had been training to assist him that had rid hard and having Dranke untill they were very Merry, one of the people fired a Gunn but really they had no thought of the Guard or giving any alarm to the Towne and Since it has so happened is heartily Sorry for p. 73 it and declares it was not with any designe to give any Affront to the Government And then withdrew. His Exncy was pleased upon Mr Hills Submission tho his ill temper be well known to Suspend any further Resentment at this time. His Exncy and the Boarde takeing into their Consideration in what methode to Settle Itinerant Iustices The Attorney Generall Mr Charles Carroll Mr Wornall Hunt Barristers & Mr George Plater and Mr Cornelius White Attorneys at Law being present, 1st Resolved That the Number of Justices of the Pro vinciall Court be reduced to four such Gentn as his Excel lency shall thinke fitt to appoint of the most proper and discreet persons Freeholders within this province and that they be thereto Comissionated under the Greate Seale of this her Majestys Province & to hold four Courts or Termes at Annapolis Anually. 2dIy That these four Judges have likewise Comissions of Assize and Goale delivery, & go the Westerne and Easterne Circuits twice in every Year to take the Verdicts of Iurors and deliver the Severall County Goales. That process Issue out of and returnable to, & all pleadings be filed and Issues made up in the provinciall Court Tryable there the next Terme Nisi Justiciarij & prius &c. And in Case one other Terme should intervene before p. 74 the Assizes after such Issue is made up, that there be an En try made of Course (to Continue the Cause) of a Venire facias Iur. &c to the next Terme but that Ven: nihil facit nec misit Bre prdict. Ideo Ven &c Awarded to the next Subse quent Terme, nisi prius &c and this in all Causes (tho not to be made out or Executed, but that the Iurors come to the Barr as now practised in the provinciall Court. 4thly That the Record of all such Issues not Tryable at Barr but at the assizes be made up compleated and Sealed under the Seale of the Provinciall Court; ready to be broke open upon calling the Cause at the Assizes as sett downe in its due Course And that there be a Clark of the Assizes appointed to go with the Iustices in the Circuites of the Westerne & Easterne Shoares to Endorse the Postea on the Back of the Record (Viz.) the taking the Verdict of the
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