120 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3, 1715.

L. H. J.

Richard Young Serjeant attendant on this House brings
here the Body of Andrew Hambleton Esqr by Virtue of the
Honble the Speaker's Warrant to him directed.
And Mr Speaker having asked the Reason why he the said
Hambleton has been hitherto absent from the Service of this
House as being returned a Delegate for Kent County; He
offered to the Speaker that he was engaged to attend at a
Supreme Court in the Territory of Pensylvania held or ap-
pointed to be held on the 29th of last Month there to appear
as Council for some Persons he was retained a long Time
before he was elected and that he had no Opportunity to send
his Excuse unto the House being at the Time he heard of the
said Court a hundred Miles from his own House on Chester
River.
It is Resolved that the same Andrew Hambleton be excused
for his Absence hitherto paying the Clerk of this House
twenty Shillings Current Money and to the Serjeant Attendant
the Sum of forty Shillings Current Money and to the Door-
keeper five Shillings which Sums the said Andrew Hambleton
is ordered to pay to the said respective Officers and thereupon
is admitted a Member. And thereupon Capt. S^t Ledger Codd
and Mr William Blay are sent up along with him to the Gov-
ernor and Council to see him qualified according to Law.
They return and say they saw him qualified.
Mr Robert Tyler from the Committee of Aggrievances
delivers Mr Speaker the following Report Viz.

By the Committee of Aggrievances
May the fourth 1715

It is humbly offered to this Committee as an Aggrievance
that the Justices of Dorchester County have sold and disposed
to the two late Sheriffs of their County the several Amercia-
ments that have become due in their County for several years
past for considerable less than the Value, whereby it is not
only lessening their County Credit but gives Power to the
said Sheriffs to burthen the People from whom the Amercia-
ments are due with several Fees by bringing Scire facias
against them. All which we refer to the House for Consider-
ation thereof
Signed p Order Joh Beale Cl. Com.

p. 507

Thereupon it is Ordered that the Committee of Laws pre-
pare a Bill about Amerciaments in the Provt and County
Courts to prevent the Inconveniency in the said Report
mentioned for the future.