360 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 6, 1725.

L. H. J.

for our Entreating Your Honour to be Referred to the fur-
ther advice of your Councill in the Subject Matter treated of,
who having fully debated it, and Concurr'd with us therein,
may more fully Satisfy you, and with more Ease by way of
Conversation than can be Expected from us by way of
Address.
And as the Chief end of all parliamentary priviledge
is to apply properly for the Redress of Grievances that happen
to the people whether through Mistakes in the Administration
of Justice or otherwise we should but poorly Answer the End
of our Institution and Election if we should be wanting in
this weighty part, and it is to your Honour in Such Case we
are Immediately to Apply and therefore we desire Your
Honour to Consider that all the Rights and Priviledges
granted to us by Charter, and the Benefit! of all those Acts
of our own we have from time to time at Vast Expence been
making are Rendered Useless & unserviceable to us, unless
you are pleas'd to Appoint such Magistrates to Administer
them to the People as are well Inclin'd, as well as Sworn so
to do. The Province is Yet too Young to have great Choice
of Men, duly Qualified for the Magisteriall Offices, and there-
fore we the more Zealously Address Your Honour, not to
deprive any part of our Country of such Magistrates as have
been generally well approved therein. It is Impossible for
Your Honour or any Supreme Magistrate to Judge of all their
Subordinates from their own personall knowledge of the Men,
and-therefore it has been the Wisdom of Your Predecessors,
to Advise with their Councill of State and in Assembly

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Times with the Severall Representatives who they were that
were best Qualified in their Respective Counties to fill such
Vacancies as might Happen in the Severall Seats of Judica-
ture. These were found by Experience to be happy Rules of
Choice to the People, and we doubt not they would be found
pleasing and agreeable to Your Honour.
We observe by his Lordships Speech Communicated to us
this Sessions that his Lordship seems not to depart from his
Instruction of 19^th March 1722 wherein he is pleased amongst
other things to direct you, Not only [not] to Admitt of any
such practice (as to a New English Statute to operate here)
to take place in Maryland but even to discountenance any
Doubts Concerning the same, and we are apprehensive that
Your Honour Esteems Your Self obliged to Act thereby.
This may it please Your Honour we are the Rather Induced
to believe from an Enquiry we have made this Sessions of
the Justices of Ann Arrundell County, who have been sworn
to two new Commissions long since the Resolution and Con-