The Lower House. 441

And the Ingrossed Bill thereof Indorsed thus.

5^th Aug^t 1729.
Read & Assented to by the Upper House of Assembly
Signed p Order Jn^o Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

The Ingrossed Bill Entituled an Act reviving & Continuing an
Act Entituled an Act to restrain the ill Practices of Attornys &c^a
was read and Assented to by this House.

L. H. J.

The Paper Bill Entituled an Act reviving & Continuing an Act
Entituled an Act to restrain the ill Practices of Attorny's &c^a In-
dorsed thus

By the Lower House of Assembly Aug^t the 5^th 1729.

The Ingrossed Bill whereof this is the Original is read & As-
sented to.
Signed p Order M. Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Was sent to the Upper House by Coll^o Gale & M^r Key who return
and Say they Delivered the same
Coll^o Belt from the Committee of Aggreivances and Courts of
Justice Delivered to M^r Speaker the following Report Viz.

By the Committee of Aggreivances & Courts of Justice
August the 5^th 1729

Your Committee have Examined the Several Commissions
granted to the Several Courts of Judicature within this Province
and do find that the Commission to the Provincial Court by which
they now Act, is not Agreeable to the Oath of Judge or Justice for
in that Commission the words are to keep or Cause to be kept all
and Singular the reasonable Good Laws Statutes & Ordinances of
that Part of the Kingdom of Great Britain Called England &c. And
in the Oath it is thus Mentioned, According to the Directions of the
Acts of Assembly of this Province so far forth as they Provide &
Where they are Silent, according to the Laws Statutes & reasonable
Customs of England Agreable to the Usage & Constitution of this
province &c.

p. 121

And your Committee further find that the Commission now
Granted the Commissary General of Maryland Differs very much
from the Commission Granted to the late Commissary General And
therefore your Committee refer the Inspection of the said Commis-
sions to the House for their Consideration therein
Signed p Order Nic. Hammond Cl.

p. 122