24 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 23-Nov. 3, 171 1.

U. H. J.

The Presid^t your Honours assign of S^r Thomas Lawrence's
being restored is very foreign & the Constitution of the
Courts of Judicature are now quite altered to what they were
then

For the Governeur as well as the Council immediately after
the Revolution were Judges of the Provincial Court

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Your Honours may remember we two years since com-
plained to you of the like Aggrievances of Persons being
Judges in two Courts which your Honours then agreed was
such and Concurred with us to Address the Queen that the
office of Governour & Keeper of the great Seal in one & the
same person was inconsistent by reason Appeals might be
from one Court to another & to one and the same Person
Which Aggrievance We Conceive is not so great as one
Person being at the same time a member of your honble
Board a Judge of the Provincial Court & a Ministerial officer
there receiving the whole profitts of the Fees in that Court &
under no Obligation or Oath (that we know of) to exercise the
office of Deputy Secretary
We have no Intent or Design to retrench her Majesty's
royal Prerogative and are Satisfied with what more Justices
your Honours please to appoint in the Provincial Court
We have very freely consented to charge ourselves & the
People we represent with very great Sums lor the Attendance
of your Honours in Council which indeed appears to be the
greatest Cause of calling us together, tho' we expected &
were in great Hopes your Honours would with us Concur to
have Eased the People of their Burthens and Aggrievances.
But we plainly see no other use made of our House (in the
absence of a Governour) than to be Slighted & lead ourselves
& our Posterity into very great Inconveniencys

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We are of opinion and well assured you have now as great
power to redress the Aggrievances the people we represent
lye under as ever. And if your Honours do not think fit to
Exert it, We shall Leave it fairly on our Journals to appear
that we have done our Duty & Endeavours and if We cannot
remove & have their Aggrievances redressed We are resolved
to lay on them no Burthen or oppression by assenting to an
Act to tax them with any publick Levy, And therefore desire
to return to our Familys
Signed p order of the House of Deleg
2^d Novem^r 1711 R Dallam Cl

M^r Lee brought up from the House of Delegates the ordi-
nancys to the Justices of Prince Georges County not to con-
tinue the Ferry at Mount Calvert