60 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 4, 1724.

U. H. J.
p. 145

consider there may be the same Regulations for the electing
a Sheriff that are now used for the electing Delegates and
that the Sheriff will be under the Restraint of all the Laws
in force to prevent his Oppressing those that have Voted
against him and will be under this more Weighty Influence
that by Oppressing one of those that Voted Against him he
might loose the Votes of many of those that Voted for him
at the next Election and so have a Period put to his Power
of Oppressing and the People have Leave to choose another
in his Room who for fear of the like Fate would Avoid the
Offences And We conceive your Observation that the ap-
pointing Sheriffs has been hitherto thought a Branch of the
Prerogative will not at all discourage our endeavours for the
obtaining what we Propose as an ease to the Prerogative and
if his Honour the Governor or the chief Magistrate for the
time being is pleased to think it so and consents to it we
shall then think ourselves easy in the Remedy proposed and
if not, it is yet offering to his Honour an opportunity of doing
an acceptable Good, which from Experience we have no
Reason to believe he will decline embracing
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House of Assembly by
M^r Tolley & M^r Hamilton Entituled An Act for erecting a
Town at Joppa in Baltimore County and for Securing the
Land whereon the Court House and Prison are built for the
use of the said county thus Subscribed Viz.

October the 30^th 1724.
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
and
Signed p Order. M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

Adjourned till Saturday morning

Saturday morning October the 31^st 1724.
Present as Yesterday.

Two Engrossed Bills from the Lower House by M^r Crab
& M^r Taylor viz.
A Supplementary Act to the Act Intituled an Act for the
Tryal of all matters of facts in the Counties where they have
arisen & shall arise the continuance of Causes in the Pro-
vincial Court and Adjournment of that Court.
An Act for Explaining a Paragraph of the Supplementary
Act to the Act Entituled An Act directing the manner of