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licite at one and the same time for the same Office that one
only can be) Obliged in and as the Grant of that Office is of no
Advantage but a Trouble to the Person Granting it We hope
it may be thought the rather Conducive to the common Satis-
faction of Prerogative and people and by this means also
the many Neglects of taking no Sureties or of taking such
as are not Sufficient to Answer the publick debts And all the
ill Consequences thereof will in the Opinion of your Com-
mittee be effectually Remedied the Electors of such Sheriffs
being Answerable for him as the Electors of Coroners are
at this day in England.
Signed p Order Ninian Mariarte Cl Com Aggs
Which said Report was thus endorst viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly October 27th 1724.
May it Please your Honours
Our Committee of Aggrievances having made the within
Report with which this House Concurs have thought fit to
communicate the same to your Honours for your Consider-
ation.
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.
Adjourned till Wednesday morning
Wednesday October the 28th 1724.
Present as yesterday
A Message from the Lower House of Assembly by Colo
Mackal & five others viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly October 27th 1724
May it please your Honours
Your Message of the 22d Instant seems to Object Against
the form of the Oath of Judge because it essentially deviates
as you are pleased to Observe from the Antient forms of the
Oaths used but as such deviations might have been occasioned
by the mistakes of Coppying Clerks we should have hoped
that Observation would not have deserved your notice if
there were no Deviations in them from the Essentials of the
Constitution and we hope your Honours will not find any
Deviation of that kind Whatever seems in your message to
import it We presume arises from your Honours misexpress-
ing your Sentiments of the constitution or your misappre-
hension of the Oath & [not] from any impropriety in it.
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