8 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts

or Officers within this Province shall hereafter for any such Writts
of Error Supersedeas or Scire facias to have Judgem^t upon Error
from the Provinciall Court of this Province to any County Court or
other inferiour Court of this Province receive or demand any other
Fee or Fees then is hereafter menconed That is to say for a writt
of Error to the Secretary Fifty pounds of Tobaccoe and to the
Chancellor for the Seale thereof One hundred & twenty pounds
of Tobaccoe, for a Supersedeas to the Secretary fifty pounds of
Tobaccoe and to the Chancellor for the Seale thereof one hundred
& Twenty pounds of Tobacco, for a Scire facias to the Secretary
fifty pounds of Tobaccoe and to the Chancellor for the Seale thereof
one hundred and Twenty pounds of Tobaccoe any Law Usage or Cus-
tome in anywise to the Contrary notwithstanding And for the
Lymitting and Regulateing of Appeals from the Provinciall Court
Be it Enacted that the Method and forme herein expressed be
observed and pursued that is to say upon any Judgem^t given or
obteyned in the said Court wherein the Originall debt or damages
shall exceed the Sume of Fifty pounds sterling or Twenty Thousand
pounds of Tobaccoe The appeale from such Judgem^t of the said
Provinciall Court shall be made unto the Govern^r and Councill of
this Province wherein and in the prosecution of such appeale or
Appeales the party appealant shall observe the Methods and Rules
herein before mentioned for the prosecuting of appeals from the
County Courts unto the said Provinciall Court, and shall give in
such security as aforesaid, And if such Judgement shall be affirmed
by the said Govern^r & Councill the same shall be finall and without
any further Review unless it shall exceed the Sume of Three hundred
pounds sterling And be it further Enacted by the authority afore-
said that all and every person or persons whatsoever shall conceive
him or themselves relievable in Equity before a Court of Chancery
from any Judgem^t given or obteyned against him in the Provinciall
Court or County Court aforesaid shall Exhibit! his Bill and proceed
in such Court of Chancery before any appeale be Entred or prosecuted
before the Govern^r & Councill aforesaid and not afterwards, and that
all such persons that shall conceive themselves aggrieved by any
decree in the said Court of Chancery, wherein the Originall debt shall
exceed the Sume of Ffty pounds sterling or Twenty Thousand
pounds of Tobaccoe shall be att Liberty to Exhibitt his Prayer to the
Govern^r and Councill to review & Examine the Same, and that such
Sentence Judgem^t or Decree of the said Govern^r and Councill either
in Law or Equity as aforesaid shall be finall in this Province, not but
that any person or persons aggrieved with such Sentence Judgement
or Decree of the said Govern^r & Councill where the reall vallue in
dispute shall exceed Three hundred pounds Sterling according to their
Ma^tys Royall Commission & Instruction to his Exc^ncy Francis Nichol-
son Esq^r their Ma^tys Captain Generall and Govern^r in Cheif of this
Province shall and may appealle to their Ma^tys in their Privy Councill