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oners, and other Officers, that have arrested, or shall arrest, any
Person or Persons, by Virtue of any Writ, Precept, or Process,
returnable to the Second Tuesday of September next, shall be under
the same Obligation to have the Party arrested, at Annapolis, the
said Third Tuesday of October: And that all Bail Bonds taken, or
that shall be taken, for the Appearance of any Person or Persons at
the Provincial Court to be held the Second Tuesday of September
next, shall be discharged, by Appearance of the Party or Parties, the
Third Tuesday of October next; and forfeited, and assignable for the
Non-Appearance of the Party or Parties then, as if such Writ, Pro-
cess, and Precepts, were then returnable: And that the Provincial
Courts, for the future, shall begin the Third Tuesday of May and
October, Yearly; any Law, Usage, or other Cause, Matter, or Thing,
to the contrary, notwithstanding.
Provided always, That it shall and may be lawful for the Justices
of the Provincial Court, as often as they shall have special Occasion
for so doing, to adjourn the said Provincial Court, from the Days
aforesaid, to any other convenient Time, as to them shall seem meet ;
any tiling herein contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.
And be it Enacted, by the Authority of the aforesaid. That that
Part of an Act of Assembly, intituled, An Act causing Grand and
Petit Jurors to come to the Provincial and County Courts, and ascer-
taining their Allowances, made at a Session of Assembly, begun and
held at the City of Annapolis, the Twenty Sixth Day of April, Anno
Domini Seventeen Hundred and Fifteen, which relates to sum-
moning Grand and Petit Jurors to attend at the Provincial Court,
be and is hereby Repealed, and made Void.
And whereas, since last Provincial Court, sundry Persons have
been committed for Crimes and Misdemeanours by them done; and
Witnesses have been bound over, to testify against such Persons at
next Provincial Court,
Be it therefore Enacted, That all such Commitments and Recog-
nizances returnable before the said Provincial Court, shall be
obliged to be returned by the respective Magistrates taking such
Recognizances, before the Judges of Assize, in the respective
Counties where the Offences have been committed; and the Offenders
and Witnesses be obliged to appear, by Virtue of said Recognizances,
accordingly.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That the Secretary, for the Time being, shall cause every
Record that shall be ordered by any Attorney of the Provincial Court,
to be made out for any Trial of any Issues at the Assizes, to be trans-
mitted to the Clerk of the Assize of the Circuit where the Issue is to
be tried, (who is, by this Act, obliged to receive and carry the same
the Circuit,) before the Assizes for that Shore, wherein the Issue
is to be tried, begins, under the Penalty of paying unto the Party
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