558 Assembly Proceedings, 1714-1726.

Session
Laws
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adjourned their Court to Tuesday the 30^th Day of October Instant,
in order to finish the same; but for that a Member of the Lower
House, who is general concerned in the Causes there, is obliged to
attend his Duty in the Assembly; and that his Clients and himself
would be greatly prejudic'd by his involuntary Absence, should the
Causes (several of which cannot be continued, as the Law now
stands, 'till November Court,) be try'd; or those he is concern'd for,
be condemn'd unheard: For Prevention whereof,
Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governour, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That all Suits, Pleas and Process, Civil and Criminal, that
were not determin'd and ended in August Court last past, in Balte-
more County-court, shall be, and are by Virtue of this Act, con-
tinued from August Court, to November Court next ensuing; any
Thing in the Act to limit the Continuance of Actions, or other Law,
Usage, or Custom, or Defect of Sitting and Proceeding according
to the Adjournment aforesaid, notwithstanding.

1722
Chap. XIV
[See note to
ch VII;
supplements
1716, ch. 1]
p. 31

A Supplementary Act to the Act for repairing the Damages already
sustained in the Records of the Land, Secretaries, Commissaries
and County-Court Offices; and for Security of the same Records
for the future.

For the better Executing of the said recited Act, Be it Enacted,
by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by and with the
Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governour, and the Upper
and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same,
That Thomas Bordley, and Daniel Dulany, Esq^rs be added to the
Commissioners already appointed by the said Act of Assembly, to
view and examine the State of the Publick Records therein men-
tioned. And that the said former Commissioners (except M^r
Joseph Hill, who is hcic by exempted from his Attendance thereon,
thro' his bad State of Health) and the said Thomas Bordley, and
Daniel Dulany, or any Three of them, shall be and are impowered
and required to execute the several Powers and Authorities con-
tained in the said Act.
And be it further Enacted, That the said Commissioners, or any
of them that shall neglect or refuse to discharge the Trust in them
reposed, except in case of Sickness or some very pressing Occasion,
to be adjudged by the major Part of the Commissioners then
present, shall forfeit Five Hundred Pounds of Tobacco to the Use
of Free Schools in the several Counties: And that every one of the
said Commissioners shall be allowed Eighty Pounds of Tobacco,
for every Days Attendance, in putting this or the said recited Act
in Execution, in the Publick Levy.