270 Assembly Proceedings, April id-June 3, 1715.

C. P.

person hath been in prison att the suit of two or three Sev^ll
Persons or hath lain for the Satisfaction of two or more Sev^ll
Judgments for the Sher to Charge Imprisonment flees for
Each Action or Judgment for prevention whereof for the future,
Be itt Enacted by the Authority afd that itt shall not be
Lawfull for any Sher within this Province to take any more
ffees for keeping any prisoner tho he be in prison att the suit
of two or three severall persons or for Sev^ll Judgments then if
he was in prison only att one Suite or for one Cause under

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the pains and penalties mentioned in the Act for Limitation
of Officers ffees against the Offenders thereof.
And be itt further Enacted that a Certaine Act of Assembly
of this Province Entituled an Act restraining the Extortions of
Shers Sub shers and Deputy Commissarys made att a Sessions
of Assembly begun and held att the Citty of Annapolis the
twenty sixth day of Aprill Anno Dom. one thousand Seven
hundred and four and one other Act of Assembly Entituled
an Act of directions for the Shers Office in this Province and
for the more Easy payment of the Publick and County Levy
made att a Sessions of Assembly begun and held att the City
of Annapolis the twenty second day of October Anno Dom.
Seventeen hundred and Thirteen be and are hereby repealed
and made Void.

An Act directing the Manner of Electing and Summoning
Delegates and representatives to serve in succeeding Assem-
blys and for Ascertaining the Expences of the Councillors
Delegates of Assembly and Commissioner of the provinciall
and County Courts of this Province.

Forasmuch as the Chiefest and only foundation and Sup-

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port of any Kingdome State or Commonwealth is the Pro-
viding Establishing and Enacting good and wholesome Laws
for the good rule and Government thereof and also upon any
neccessary and Emergent Occasion to raise and Levy mony
for the Defraying the Charges of the said Government and
the Defence thereof neither of which According to the Con-
stitution of this province can be made Ordained Established
or raised but by and with the Consent of the ffreemen of this
province by their severall Delegates and representatives by
them freely nominated Chosen and Elected to serve for their
sev^ll Citys and Counties in a Gen^ll Assembly and for as much
as the safest and best rule for this Province to follow in Elect-
ing such Delegates and representatives is the precedents of
the proceedings in Parliaments in England as near as the

Constitution of this province will Admitt The Governour