314 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 27-Nov. 14, 1713.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

Bill relating to Writs of Error and granting Appeals In-
dorsed
By the Council in Assembly
9^br 11^th 1713

Read the first and second Times and will pass.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Council

By the House of Delegates
Eodem Die.

Read again and past for ingrossing
Signed p Order Evan Jones D. Cl. Ho. Del.

The following Petition of Charles Carroll Esq and William
Bladen Esq"

To the Honble President and Council in Assembly
The Petition of Charles Carroll and William Bladen
Most humbly sheweth ;

p. 415

That your Petitioners have three Houses in the City of
Annapolis which from the 22^d Day of May 1705 have been
made Use of or wholly in the Occupation of the publick Arms
and Ammunition and that Capt. John Young Master Gunner
and Storekeeper of the publick Magazine in the City of
Annapolis or his Predecessor in that Office have ever since
had the Keys and Possession thereof without any Use or
Benefit thereof whatever made by your Petitioners or any
others claiming under them That the said Houses when
first taken into the Country's Service were in Repair but are
now much decayed.

That upon your Petit^rs Remonstrance for Satisfaction for
Rent thereof the Delegates have allowed only thirty five
Pounds Currency tho' the Rent of the said Houses at a mod-
erate Computation might have brought your Petitioners above
Eighty Pounds Sterling
That your Petitioners could never have the Possession of
the said Houses restored to them; and the Delegates of the
present Assembly taking the Advantage of the Master Gunner
or Storekeepers conniving, and permitted M^rs Jane Burnell to
put some ffother into the great House though but for two
Months last past (unknown to your Petitioners) having refused
to make any reasonable Allowance for that Rent of that House
on Pretence that the same is not employed for the Arms &^ta
but by private Persons which with humble Submission to
better Judgments had the same Shift been offered to have been