436 Assembly Proceedings, October 9-November 3, 1722.

L. H. J.

Wednesday October the 24^th 1722
The House meets according to Adjournment
Yesterdays Proceedings are read.
On the report of the Comittee of Agrievances about Jurors
allowances,

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Resolved the Jurors be allowed for their Itinerant Charges
and Attendance in the same Manner as allowances to Evi-
dences Sumoned To attend the Provincial Court are to be
paid by the publick.
And That a Bill be prepared for that purpose
Col Tilghman from the Upper House Delivers M^r Speaker
the Bill for regulating Amerciam^ts &c^a thus Endorst Viz.

By the Upp^r House of Assembly 8^ber 24^th 1722

This Bill being read wee find the Last Enacting Clause
will Erect such an Arbitrary Judicature as is intirely un-
known to our Laws and which may hereafter be the source
of inumerable evills to the People by Creating Tedious Dis-
putes between the Courts and the Lawyers to the great Delay
of business, without that Clause the Bill will pass.
Signd p ord^r Sam^l Skippon Cl. up. ho.

Bill to enable James Lloyd & Anne his Wife and Deborah
Pemberton surviving Executors of Robert Grundy Dece^d to
Convey the Lands and Water Mill therein menconed accord-
ing to the sales thereof made by the Dece^d in his Life Time,
was read the first & Second Times by Especial ord^r and past,
which was so endorst and sent to the upp^r House, by M^r Sher-
wood & M^r Oldham
They return & say they Delivered it
M^r Stoddert from the Comittee of Laws, Returns the fol-
lowing report on Maj^r Sewall's Petition Viz :

By the Comitte of Laws 24^th 8^ber 1722.

Upon Enquiry into the truth of the Allegacons Contained
in M^r Nicholas Sewall's Peticon,

We find that s^d Sewalls grants of the Land called Darby
Three Thousand Acres, were prior to the Grant to the Indians
Likewise that the Land called Indian Neck is included within

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the Indians Bounds. But we Can't find any Other proof or
Certainty for the bounds of Darby than what may be gathered
from the Deposicon of Isaac Nicholls to a place Called Oyster
shell Point where we have Mark't in the Plat at O, The
Validity of which is referred to the House.