The Lower House. 281

ties of this Province to attend the Provincial Court are obliged :
to attend the same without Allowance to defray their Charges
except one hundred and twenty Pounds of Tobacco in a Cause
which is but a small Allowance to defray the Charges of two
Juries for fourteen or fifteen Days having perhaps but ten or
twelve Causes in a Court (and some Courts much less) by
Occasion whereof the said Jurors not only suffer in the Loss
of their Time from their Families but undergo great Hardships
in attending the said Court having not wherewith to accomo-
date themselves. All which is referred to the House for
their Consideration therein
Read and debated and Resolved it is an Aggrievance and
that a Bill be brought in to remedy the same. Put to the
Question whether all Petit Jurors attending the Provincial
Court as well in Criminal Cases as between Party and Party
shall have Allowance from the Public or not? Carryed in the
Affirmative and Resolved they be allowed thirty Pounds of
Tobacco p Diem to be paid by the Public to each Juror be-
sides the 1 20 ft Tobacco to be tax'd in the Bill of Costs to be
paid by the Party against whom the Verdict is found as usual
and that there be allowed to every Evidence attending the
Provincial Court for the Queen against any Criminal forty
Pounds of Tobacco p Diem to be paid by the Public where
the Party accused is found guilty and where the Party accused
is acquitted to be paid by him and such Evidences in the
County Court to be paid as aforesaid thirty Pounds of Tobacco
p Diem.
Resolved That a Clause be added in the said Act that no
Sheriff shall summons any Person to serve as a Petit Juror in
the County or Provincial Court that has any Cause for Trial
at that Court to which he is summoned to serve as a Juror.
They also report that it is an Aggrievance that the several
Inhabitants of this Province have lost several of their Cattle
by straying away from them because the Persons where the
said Cattle stray to do not publish that they have such stray
Cattle use their Plantation at some publick Place in each
County but for Self Interest to themselves they generally con-
ceal them there being no Law to compel them to publish the
same. All which is likewise referred to the House for their
Consideration therein
Signed p Order Jn^o Beale Cl Comm.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

Resolved it is an Aggrievance and referred till next Session
of Assembly for further Consideration.
Resolved her Majesty be addressed in Relation to the
Tobacco Trade and that the President and Council be desired
to join therein Viz.

P. 393