68 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 23-Nov. 3, 1711.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

Which being read and debated it's Resolved it be answered
as follow —

To the Honble President and Council

The humble Address and Remonstrance of the Deputies
and Delegates of the Province of Maryland in
Assembly convened

On Wednesday last we addressed your Honours setting
forth an Aggrievance the Province laboured under wherein
we very modestly and candidly laid the same before your
Honour's to be redressed not intending thereby to accriminate
any Person or did or do we harbour any dishonourable Thoughts
of the Gentl. that are Judges of the Provincial Court only desir-
ing thereby your Honours to prevent our Laws to be dispensed
with and held for null and void while in Force and the Mis-
chiefs that may happen by Persons being judicial and Minis-
terial Officers in any Court. But instead of having that Ag-
grievance prevented or receiving any satisfactory Answer
thereto, we find, after long Delay only a Message evading the
Substance of the Aggrievance under Pretext to justify and
continue it, the President your Honours Assigne of Sir
Thomas Lawrence being restored is very foreign and the
Constitution of the Courts of Judicature are quite altered to
what they were then, for the Governor as well as the Council

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immediately after the Revolution were Judges of the Provin-
cial Court. Your Honours may remember, we two Years
since complained to you of the like Aggrievances of Psons
being Judges in two Courts, which your Honours then agreed
were such and concurred with us to address the Queen that
the Office of Governor and Keeper of the Great Seal in one
and the same Person was inconsistent by Reason Appeals
might be from one Court to another and to one and the same
Person. Which Aggrievance we conceive is not so great as
one Person's being at the same Time a Member of your
Honble Board, a Judge of the Provincial Court and a Minis-
terial Officer receiving the whole Profits of the ffees in that
Court and under no Obligation or Oath to exercise the Office
of Deputy Secretary. We have no Intent or Design to re-
trench her Majesty's Prerogative and are satisfied with more
Justices, your Honours shall please to appoint in the Provin-
cial Court We have very freely consented to charge ourselves
and the People we represent with very great Sums for the
Attendance of your Honours in Council which indeed appears
to be the great Cause of calling us together (tho^t we expected
and were in great Hopes your Honours would with us con-