182 Assembly Proceedings, April 22-May 10, 1718.

U. H. J.

to Consider whether it may not be adviseable to Disable the
said Macnemara from Practising the Law by Bringing in a
Bill or otherwise as in Your Discretion shall seem Proper
for Preventing him in the Comission of the like Enormities
We send you herewith severall Papers relating to this
Affair which we hope will give You full Satisfaction therein
Signed p Order
John Beard Cl. Up. Ho.

Sent to the Lower House by Col^o Holland Col Young Col
Addison & Col Tilghman, who Return & say they D^d it.

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Capt Daniel Mariartee & M^r Peter Taylor with a Bill for
Relief of sundry poor Prisoners in Ann Arundell County
with the foll^o Endorsement Viz

By the Lower House of Assembly.
May the 7^th 1 718.

On reading your Endorsment on the within bill this House
are well Informed that the Prisoners therein Mentioned have
not any thing wherewith to pay their Debts and that to Dis-
charge them only from the Debts they are now in Prison for
And Subject them to be Taken and arrested again for other
Debts Owing from them would be a Partiall pceeding and an
Apparent Injustice to those at whose Suit the Prisoners are
now in Custody and as to the sherriffs Fees this House are
Unwilling to Burthen the Publick with the payment of any
of them least by that means other Sherriffs for the future may
Claim the Like on Prisoners being Discharged by the Legis-
lature, and we further Observe that tis not a greater Injustice
to the Sherriff to loose his Fees than the Creditors their Debts
Signed p Order
Mic. Jenifer Cl. Lo. House

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Which being Read and Considered is Ordered to be thus
Endorsed Viz.

This Bill Read again will Pass. But It is Earnestly Recom-
ended to the lower house to Consider of some Recompence to
to the Goaler for his Trouble & Charge in victualling those
who have been kept in Close Custody, which is Intirely at his
own Charge & Risk.
Signed p order John Beard Cl. Up. Ho.

Sent p Col^o Holland who Returns & Says he D^d it.
Col Edw^d Scott & M^r Tobias Pollard with an Engrost bill
for Qualifying John Steele of the City of Annapolis Esq^r to
hold Offices within this Province.