100 Assembly Proceedings, March 26- April 15, 1707.

L. H. J.

this is the second Time your House has ordered the Attorney
General to prosecute him and his Accomplices and that hath
been ineffectual and altho' there are now actually four Bills
of Indictment found by several Grand Juries of this Province
against him yet divers evil Persons have presumed to receive
comfort, and aid him whereby he has been able to avoid
Justice according to his Demerits sculking within ten miles
of this Place, the Seat of Government, and practicing and
carrying on his traiterous and wicked Designs.
Signed p W. Bladen Cl. Co.

Read and referred for further Consideration.
The Petitions of Col^{o
William Holland and Capt. Richard
Smith upon some Differences relating to the Bounds of Land
were read and fully debated and the said Genl being called
into the House and their Arguments an both Sides being
heard withdrew and the House again debated the Matter in
the Petitions contained.}

p. 126

This House resolved that a divisional Line formerly run out
and marked between the said Richard Smith and William Hol-
land by Edward Batston Surveyor Beginn^g at the third bounded
Tree of the Tract called S^t James's, it being a White Oak and
running thence North West half a Point northerly by a con-
tinued Course till it intersect the South Line of Brook's Par-
tition shall be the divisional Bounds between the said Holland
and Smith and that a Bill be prepared by the Committee of
Laws to settle the same accordingly.
The House Adjourns till two O'Clock Afternoon.

Post Meridiem

The House met again. Being called over all present as in
the morning.
The Petition of Edward Taylor of Dorchester County
praying Liberty to bring in a Bill to confirm Land &^ta Read
and resolved a Bill be brought in as prayed.
The Petition of, M^r George Harris, praying Liberty to bring
in a Bill for Sale of Land of Charles Ridgely deceased for
Payment of a Debt to him was read in the House, and M^rs
Deborah Clagett al's Ridgely and her Husband being called
into the House to make their Defence against the Petition but
being not acquainted in those Affairs prayed that her Council
might be admitted. Which being granted, and by Permission
the said Harris being present, the aforegoing Petition was
again read, and the Matter in the Petition being argued on
both sides, they withdrew. And this House having considered