The Lower House. 105

M^r Tyler from the Comittee of Aggrievances returns the
following Report Viz.

By the Comittee of Aggrievances

It is offered to the Comittee as an Aggrievance that several
Sheriffs make it their practice to execute persons for Tobacco
(on pretence of their Dislike thereto) when in truth the To-
bacco is really good, and the end of their executing is only for
the sake of enlarging their Claim by Execution and Imprison-
ment fees, or to exact an extravagant rate in mony for their
Debts, as by Certificates produced and other Credible In-
formations appears to this Comittee, and it is further offered
that several Sheriffs refuse to discount Tobacco with those
people to whom it is due by their orders on them except an
Allowance of ten -p Cent for discounting the same to be made
them all which is referr'd to the House for their further
Consideration
Sign'd p Order Nin Mariarte Cl Com.
October the 13^th 1724

On the reading whereof and the Petition of sundry Inhabi-
tants of Calvert County desireing that Sheriffs may be
Elected by the Majority of the freeholders

L. H. J.

Ordered that the Comittee of Laws prepare a Remon-
strance to his Honour the Governour thereon
The Petition of John Bagby complaining of the hardships
he has Sustained by the Dep^ty Comissary of Calvert County
his not taking Sufficient Security on the Adm^r of the Estate of
John fford deced and desireing that this house will be pleased
to declare whether the Dep^ty Comissarys Bond for the due
Execution of his Office entred into to the Comissary Generall
be a private or a publick bond

Resolved that that Bond and all other Deputy Comissarys
Bonds heretofore taken are of publick Nature and answerable
to any person that shall suffer by the Mal Administration of
the Deputy Comissary in his office
The Petition of Mary Hampton, widow praying that An
Action of hers depending in the Provinciall Court and to
be tryed before the Judges of Assize may be further con-
tinued for that Otherwise it will be discontinued before the
next Assizes was read and Resolved that she be reliev'd in the
Amendments proposed to the Assize Bill unless Cause Shewn
to the Contrary to morrow
Coll Ward from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker,
The Petition of Zach^a Maccubbins Sherr of Ann Arrundell
County praying An Allowance for attending the Provinciall
Courts, &

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