The Upper House. 47

Read the Petition of Several Gentlemen Practitioners of the Law
and Granted
The Engrossed Bill Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act
Entituled An Act for the laying out of Land and Erecting a Town
in S^t Mary's County at a place formerly called Seymour Town
being Read is Ordered to be thus Subscribed

11^th June 1730
Read and Assented to by the Upper House of Assembly
Signed p Order John Ross Cl: Up: Ho :

The Paper Bill so Endorsed is sent to the Lower House by Phil⁰
Lloyd Esq^r
A Message from the Lower House by M^r King and M^r Johnson
with the Bill for the Relief of several Insolvent Debt^rs

By the Lower House of Assembly June the 11^th 1730
May it please Yo^r Hon^rs
We cannot consent to the Amendment proposed by your Honours
To the Bill for the Relief of Several Prisoners since such a Clause
will be inconsistent with the Design of the Bill and wou'd be a means
of driving those poor people out of the province and render some of
them Incapable to maintain their familys with such things as are
necessary for their Subsistence Besides this House cannot conceive
any Reason for preferring the Sheriffs Fees to Debts due to other
Creditors, for it is certain the Expence the Sheriffs are usually at,
in Supporting Prisoners is very Inconsiderable, in comparison with
what they are allowed for it, And it appears by An Act of Parliament
past in the second year of His present Majesty's Reign for Relief of
Insolvent Debtors that no such preferrence is given, but on the con-
trary all Prisoners who should take the Oath prescribed by that
Statute, if detained for Imprisonment fees &c. and upon no other
Account, should be discharged; Which this House conceives to be a
very proper Example for the Legislature of this Province to follow
We therefore desire Your Honours will Pass the Bill as it now
Stands
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

The Question being put whether the Bill Entituled An Act to
Ascertain the Fees of Practitioners in the Law within this Province
and to prevent Extortions, frauds and Abuses therein should be
amended Resolved in the Affirmative.
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning 8 of the Clock

U. H. J.

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