208 Assembly Proceedings, October 3-November 2, 1728.

L. H. J.

M^r William Hemsley appears in the House.
The Petition of John Smith late Sherriff of Cecil County read
and rejected.
The Petition of Christopher Bonfield a Languishing Prisoner in
Calvert County Read and granted as Prayed and ordered that by a
Clause in the Bill in his favour it be incerted that he be allowed fif-
teen years to Pay his Debts.
M^r Gordon M^r Beale, Major Turbutt, and Major Robert Hanson
are appointed to go and view the Ground appropriated for a Custom
house, in the City of Annapolis and that they report to this House
what Quantity of Ground there is and how it is scituated.
Ordered that the Committee of Aggreivances get a Copy of the
decision made in King Williams Reign between the Secretary and
County Clerks of this Province and that they lay the same with
their Report thereon before this House.

p. 52

The House having taken into Consideration the Misbehaviour of
M^r James Woolford the sherriff of Dorchester County in the Elec-
tion of Coll^o William Ennalls Lately returned as a Member to serve
in this House and expelled the same because unduly Elected And
the said Sherriff being heard at the Bar of this house in his own De-
fence It appears to this House that the said Sherriff misbehaved
himself, But the house takeing into their Consideration that the said
Sherriff hath a large family and is but in mean Circumstances, there-
fore in Compassion to his family fine him only five Pounds Current
Mony, And Order That he Acknowledge his offence at the Bar of
this House and that he Pay the Charges of the Witnesses that at-
tended against him to be Assessed by the Committee of Elections
and Priviledges and the Severall fees due to the Officers of this
house
The said Sherriff in Custody of the Serjeant at Arms was brought
at the Bar of this House and being Acquainted by M^r Speaker with
the Resolution of this house in relation to him made his Submission
thereto and Acknowledged his fault and the Lenity of the House.

The Ingrossed Bill Entituled an Act to repeale an Act Entituled
an Act prohibiting the Imposition of Bread &c from Pensilvania and
the Territories thereto belonging being read was thus Indorsed viz :

October 12^th 1728.
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order. M. Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

And sent to the Upper House by M^r Thomas Worthington and
M^r Edmundson who return and say they Delivered the same
Charles Calvert Esq^r from the Upper House delivers to M^r
Speaker the Paper Bill Entituled an Act to repeale an Act Entituled