534 Assembly Proceedings, 1714-1726.

Session
Laws

of this Province and the said Lord Proprietary, his good Rule and
Dignity.
William Bladen Attorney Gener.

Billa Vera Samuell Chambers, Fore-man.

Ann-Arundel County ss.
The Jurors of the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of this
Province that now is, &c. Upon their Oathes do present, That
Thomas Macnamara of the City of Annapolis in Anne-Arundell
County, Esq; the twenty Sixth day of December in the Year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and Seventeen, at South River
in the County aforesaid, and within the Jurisdiction of this Court
with Force and Arms an Assault on the Body of a certain Benjamin
Freeman of the County aforesaid Labourer, then and there in the
peace of God and Our Lord the King being, did make, and him the
said Benjamin Freeman with Swords, Horse-whips, Fists and
Staves, did then and there beat, wound and evilly entreat, so that of
his life it was dispaired, and other harms to him then and there did,
against the Peace, &c. And the good Rule and Dignity of the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietary, &c.
William Bladen Attorney Gener.
A True Bill, Francis Hardisty, Foreman.

To his Excellency and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly,

The Humble Representation of some of the Justices of the Pro-
vincial Court [This representation is printed in Archives, volume
33 at pages 171 and 172].

1719
Chap. I
[Session
Laws
printed by
Bradford
for Evan
Jones, 1719,
p. 232; re-
vives 1715,
ch. 43]

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An Act Reviving, An Act of Assembly of this Province, entituled,
An Act for the Ordering and Regulating the Militia of this Prov-
ince, for the better defence and security thereof.

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governour, and
the Upper and Lower-Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That the above-mentioned Act, entituled An Act for
Ordering and Regulating the Militia of this Province, for the better
Defence and Security thereof, made at a Session of Assembly begun
and held at the City of Annapolis the twenty sixth Day of April,
Anno Domini One Thousand seven Hundred and fifteen, be and is
hereby Revived and continued in full Force, from and after this
Present Sessions of Assembly, for and during the Term of three
Years, and until the End of the next Sessions of Assembly, which
shall first happen after the End of the said Three Years, and no
longer.