Acts. 365

sembly draw bills of Exchange upon any Person or persons
Society or Company in Europe or the West Indies and the
same be protested and the protested bills be returned unto
this province within five yeares After the Date of such bills
that then the Debt Occasioned by the non acceptance or non
payment of such bills shall be accounted a Debt of Equall
nature with any Specialty and shall and may be Recovered by
action of Debt in any Court of Record of this province without
alleadging the Custome of Merchants in the Declaracon to-
geather with ten n p Cent Damages and three Shillings &
Six pence Charge of Protest as aforesaid of any drawer or
Indorser of such bills of Exchange their Executors or admin-
istrators Provided the same be first Legally demanded of such
drawer or Indorser their Executors or administrators any Law
Vssage or Custome to the Contrary notwithstanding.

Lib. L. L.

No. 64.

And be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid that one Act
of Assembly made at a session of Assembly begun and held
at the port of Annapolis the fifth day of September in the
third yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lady Queen
Anne &c^a Annoq Dui one thousand seven hundred & foure
Intituled an Act Ascertaineing what Damages shall be allowed
upon protested bills of Exchange & Every article Clause mat-
ter and thing therein Contained shall be & is hereby utterly
repealed and made Void.

By the house of Delegates 14^th December 1708

Read & assented to by the house of Delegates.
Signed p Order Rich^d Dallam Cl: ho: Del :

December 15^th 1708

Then was the within Bill read & assented to by her Maj^tys
hon^ble Councill, & Sign'd p order B Bladen Cl. Council

December 17^th 1708

On the behalfe of our Sovereigne Lady Anne Queen of
Great Brittain &c^a I will this be a Law. Jo: Seymour

An Act impowring Certain Trustees to sell a Tract of Land in
Talbot County Called ffranckford S^t Michaels late the
Estate and Inheritance of W^m Harris late of Calvert County
and with the money thereby ariseing to purchase other
Lands for the Vse of Joseph Harris & Benjamin Harris sons
of the said W^m Harris and the heires of their Bodys accord-
ing to the direction of the Last will & Testam^t of the said
W^m Harris.

p. 37^o

Whereas it is Represented to this Present Generall Assem-
bly that William Harris late of the Clifts in Calvert County

p. 371