410 Assembly Proceedings, June 22- July 3, 1714.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

By the Governor and Council in Assembly
June 28^th 1714

We think fit to recommend to you that whereas sundry
Statutes of that Part of her Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England have been found very useful and bene-
ficial within this her Majesty's Province of Maryland both in
Causes civil and criminal and for that it hath been often
observed that many of the aforesaid good and beneficial Stat-
utes of England not being local but seeming general have
sometimes been asserted as Law and at other Times denied
as such as well by the Lawyers in this Province as the several
Courts wherein they have been pleaded and offered which

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renders the Law in this Province very dubious and uncertain,
Whether it is not absolutely necessary the several Courts
should be well informed how to give their Judgments upon
the said Statutes and therefore if it is not advisable your
House should join with this Board to state this matter and to
direct our Agent to procure the Opinion of some of her
Majesty's Council at Law and two other eminent Lawyers
whether the said Statutes of England are in Force within this
Province or not; to the End her Majesty's Subjects here may
know by what Rule they walk and the several Courts of Law
how to render their Judgments thereon.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Con.

It is thereupon Ordered to be referred to be considered of
to Morrow.
An ingrossed Bill for settling a Revenue on her Majesty's
present Governor was read, Ordered to be endorsed thus viz.

June 28^th 1714
Read and assented to by the House of Delegates &
Signed p Order Tho. Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

Sent up to her Majesty's Council by M^r Garrett, Major
Sprigg, M^r James Mackall, M^r Lloyd, Capt Scott and M^r Robins.
They return and say they delivered the Bill
The House adjourns till to Morrow Morning 8 O'Clock

Tuesday Morning the 29^th Day of June 1714

Then the House met again according to Adjournm^t Pres-
ent as yesterday
Then was read what was done yesterday