12 Assembly Proceedings, May 29-June 8, 1717.

U. H. J.

till Eleven in the forenoon and from One till five in the after-
noon dureing this Sessions and desire to know whether the

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time resolved on be Agreeable to your Excellency and Hon^rs
Signed p ord^r Mr: Jenifer Cl Lo. Ho.

Resolved that the following message be sent down in An-
swer thereto.

By the uper ho: of Assembly

May 30th. 1717
Gent. We have Considered of your Message by Maj^r Wil-
son & M^r Hanson and think the times therein proposed very
agreeable for the dispatch of business with which we Concurr
Signed p ord^r Jn^o Beard Cl Up Ho.

Sent by Col^o Coursey who returns & says he Delivered it.
M^r John Brannock appears on the message by Col Coursey
& being asked what he knows in relation to the facts in the
petition of Moses Lecompt of Dorchester County; Answers,
being Imployed by the said Lecompt as his Attorny on the
Tryall, he is well acquainted with the facts & knows them to be
true.

Whereupon a Proper Remedy against the af^d John Kirk
and the Justices of that Court being thought necessary, 'Tis
Resolved that the Attorny Gen^ll be advised with Concerning
the Premisses, who gives his Opinion as follows

May it please your Excellency
On Consideration of the Complaint made to your Excell^cy
and his Lordships honourable Councill by Moses Lecompt of

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Dorchester County, I am humbly of Opinion that as the Jus-
tices of that County Court are answerable to the Government
(by whom they are Comissionated) in a Consular way for any
misfeasance or neglect of their Duty so your Excellency and
the honourable Councill as in your Discretion you shall see fitt
may require all or as many of them as you think proper to
attend you in Councill and there they may be made sensible of
the Imposition put upon them by M^r John Kirk a practitioner
of that Court Who is sworn to do no deceit neither to Consent
to any but to acquaint the Court if he should know of any such
practice And Consequently lyes Lyable to their Censure for
such misfeasance which is notoriously plain in him who has
been An Antient Practitioner and no ways Ignorant of the
Laws of this Province. And that the said Justices as in Con-
science & Equity they ought may acquaint him unless he makes
the Petitioner Satisfaction for the Injury he has done they will