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Edmund Jenings, Esqr from the Upper House Delivered to Mr
Speaker the Bill Entituled an Act to Continue the Process & Pro-
ceedings in the Provincial Court &c. Indorsed :
Read the first & second time by Especial Order & will pass
Which Bill was read here & Passed for Ingrossing.
The Bill Entituled an Act for Emitting and making Currant
Seventy two thousand Pounds Currant Money of Maryland, Read
the first time and Ordered to lye on the Table.
The Bill for laying out the Town a new called Marlborough
Town &ca
Read the Second time & Passed And sent to the Upper House
by Mr Crabb & Collo Belt.
A Bill Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act for Quieting
Possessions Enrolling Conveyances and Securing the Estates of
Purchasers, was read the first time & Ordered to lye on the Table.
A Bill Entituled an Act for the more Effectual Punishment of
Certain offenders.
Was read the first and second time by an Especial Order and
passed, And went to the Upper House by Mr Smith and Mr Caldwell.
The House Adjourns untill Two of the Clock in the Afternoon.
Tuesday, Post Merediem,
The House met according to Adjournmt &c.
Collo Belt from the Committee of Aggrievances Delivered to Mr
Speaker the following Report.
By the Committee of Aggrievances March the 24th 1732
It's humbly Offered by your Committee as an Aggrievance that
after an Indictment returned by a Grand Jury against any Person
Ignoramus that the Justices of any Court should put the Person
to a further Charge by Ordering an Information to be Exhibited
against him for the fact Mentioned in such Indictment so returned.
It's further Offered by your Committee as an Aggrievance that
where any Person is Prosecuted in a Criminal Case and Acquitts him-
self there from, and that the prosecution Appears to be malicious And
that the Person so Prosecuted is not able to pay the fees Accruing due
on such Prosecution unless by Servitude should be further [bur-
dened] with several Officers fees, becoming due thereon.
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