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and Oppression on the Subjects by their being Condemned if
Defendants to the payment of unjust Demands or Loosing
their Inheritance, and bring Promt to none but the Attorneys
and Officers by Obligeing them if Plaintiffs to a Renewment
of their Suits.

Wee further Observe that the last Provinciall Court tho'
it Continued constantly sitting till the Saturday night before
the Laying the Levy. Except a peice of a Day when they were
Commanded to Attend the Gov^r on a Publick Occasion Yet
they have not been able to finish those Actions that must fall
by that Act if not Tryed this next week. In which Cases,
where neither Plaintiff nor Defendant were Causes of the
Delay but both Desirous to Come to Tryal Could the Court
have heard them. There is no Provision in that Act what
Judgment ought to be Rend^red and we think it unreasonable
that either Party should Suffer in such Cases.
Signed p Order. Joh Beale Cl: Up^r Ho :

The House Adjourns till Munday Morning nine of the
Clock.

Monday Morning October the 17^th 1720.

The House meets According to Adjournment. Present as
on Saturday Last. Last Saturdays proceedings are Read.
Resolved that no Petition be received after Wednesday next.
Ordered that the Committee of Laws Inspect the Law for
Limitting the Continuance of Actions and the reasons Offered
by the Upper House and make their Report thereon to this
House.
The house Resolves it self into a Grand Committee of the
whole House According to the Order of Thursday last.
Whereupon M^r Speaker Leaves the Chair and M^r Phillip Lee
is Chosen Chairman of that Committee. Who makes the
Report following Viz :

At a Grand Committee of the Whole House held in the

L. H. J.

Stadt house on Munday the 17th Day of October Anno Domi.
1720. Present the whole House. Who having made Choice
of M^r Philip Lee for their Chairman Proceed to Consider of
the Act for Ascertaining the bounds of Land within this
Province According to the Resolution of the House on Thurs-
day Last. And agree
That the number of the Commissioners who are to meet on
the first view be five and. each of them a ffree holder to be
Elected by the Majority of freeholders in Each County on the

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