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here to enumerate; That your Petitioner being reduced to
great Poverty so that he is not able to procure Lawyers to
maintain and prosecute his just Right against them humbly
prays this Honble Assembly will appoint a Committee to en-
quire into your Petitioner's Aggrievance and the unfair and
indirect Practices of his said Lordship's Agents and Surveyors,
And he shall ever pray. Indorsed.

By his Excellency the Governor and Council in Assembly
April 1^st 1707

The above Petition being read and this Board duly reflecting
on the many good Services the Petitioner has done the
Country as well as his Lordship it's recommended to the
House of Delegates that they will examine into the Petitioner's
Complaints and see that Justice be done him.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Co.

The Committee appointed by the House to enquire into this
Complaint being Col^{o
James Maxwell, Capt. John Wells, Mr
Nicholas Lowe, and Mr Robert Bradley enters the House and
reports that they having called before them Colo
Henry Darnall,
Mr Charles Carroll and Colo
Ninian Beall and they having
examined into the Complaint of the said Beall do likewise
report that they are of Opinion that the said Beall has no just
Cause of Complaint against the said Darnall or Carroll. But
whereas the said Beall complained against several of his Lord-
ship's Surveyors for Injustice done him and they not being
here to answer for themselves Colo
Darnall and Mr Carroll in-
formed the Committee that the several Surveyors have given
Bond with good Security for due Performance of their Offices
which Bonds the are ready to assign over to any Person damni-
fied through their Neglect or Misapplication of their Office to
any Person for their Recovery of their Right by due Course
of Law. Which being both read and heard in the House it
is resolved the House concurs therewith.}

L. H. J.

The Petition of M^r John Hall and M^r James Philips on
Behalf of themselves and other Inhabitants of Baltimore
County praying a Town to be erected on a Place called Taylor's
Choice and there to settle the Court House was read and
granted
The Petition of Robert Givan and his wife referred to this
Session was read in the House and it is further referred to
next Assembly for to be considered of.
Major Josiah Wilson's Petition complaining of the Deficiency
of the Prison &^ta was here read and debated.

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