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liver M^r Speaker the Bill to try all matters of Fact in the
Severall Counties thus endorst Viz.

By the upper House of Assembly
Octo^r the 18^th 1723.
This Bill being read will pass with the {following Amend-
ments (Viz.)
I^st Two Justices of the Provinciall Court for Each side

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of the Bay such as the Governour for the Time being shall
think fit to appoint shall be justices of Assize nisi prius &
Justices of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery and that
the said Two Justices or Either of them in Case of Sickness
or Other Inability.
2^dly And be it enacted by the authority af^d that that part
of an Act of Assembly intituled an Act causing grand and
petit Jurors to Come to the Provintiall Courts and ascertain-
ing their Allowances made at a sessions of Assembly begun
and held at the City of Annapolis the Twenty Sixth day of
Aprill Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and fifteen which
relates to the sumoning grand and petit Jurors to Attend at
the Provintiall Court be and is hereby repealed and made
Voyd.
Signed p Order Sam^ll Skippon Cl. Up. Ho.

With which this House Concurrs and thereupon the Bill is
comitted for Amendment Accordingly.
Ja^s Bowles Esq^r from the Upper House Delivers M^r
Speaker the following Report Viz.

To the Hon^ble Members of the Upper and Lower Houses
of Assembly.

In Pursuance of an Act of Assembly made the last Sessions
for repairing the Damages already sustain'd in the Publick
Records of this Province Wherein we the Subscribers are
impowered and appointed (togeather with Thomas Bordley
Esq^r) Comissioners to inspect into the severall Decays and
Defects of all Records in the Land Secretary's and Comis-
sary's Offices, and for the Reparations and Amendments
of such Records therein as We should Judge necessary to
contract and agree with such person or persons as should
undertake to transcribe or repair the same,

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We Certifie that we have proceeded to View and Examine
into the State of the said Records and for the effectual tran-
scribing & perfecting such Records in the said Offices as
require the Same Upon the Application of Vachel Denton
and Edward Griffith of the City of Annapolis Clerks (who are

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