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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1737-1740
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The Lower House. 189


the second time and passed and sent to the Upper House by Mr
Henry and Mr Weems.
An ingrossed Bill entituled an Act reviving an Act of Assembly
entituled an Act for naturalization, read and Assented to, and sent to
the Upper House with the paper Bill thereof by Mr Weems and

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Capt. Caswell Philip Lee Esqr from the upper House delivers the
Petitions of Richard Dalton and Joseph Large languishing Prisoners
in Annll County Goal, indorsed, referred to the Consideration of the
Lower House of Assembly, which Petitions were here read and
Granted.
The House adjourns untill to morrow morning at 9 of the Clock

Vide
Petition of
R. Dalton in
Black Book
No. 6
Letter
No. 52

Saturday Morning May 13th 1738.

The House met according to Adjournment
Mr Matthews from the Committee of Aggrievances &ca delivers
the following Report
By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice May 13th
1728.
Your Committee having received information that some time in
April or May in the year 1736 Peter Taylor Esqr then High Sheriff
of Dorchester County having a Comon Capias did arrest a certain
Thomas Brannock of the same County, that the said Sheriff did
constitute the said Thomas Brannock his Bailiff, who acted as such,
and continued in the said Condition till Court and was then brought
by said Sheriff into Court as his prisoner. That notwithstanding the
aforesaid Service done by the said Thomas Brannock for the said
Sheriff, He the said Sheriff charged him full Fees, Vizt Twenty
pounds of Tobacco p day, allowing him no Satisfaction for his
Services aforesaid.
That the said Thomas Brannock on his Appearance in Dorchester
County Court by Francis Allen his Attorney did move to have his
Appearance entered, on which Condition He would give Bail Altho
the plaintiff had not entitled himself thereto, both which He thought
himself entitled to.
To the first (without Bail) because no Cause of Action Did then
appear in Court, and to the second because He conceived it to be his
right by the Laws of the Land, which right He had not to his Knowl-
edge forfeited, but to his great grievance was refused both: and told
by that Court He must come to Tryal immediately, for that Mr
Charles Goldsborough the plaintiff was an Officer of that Court and
thereby had right to have it so done, by means of which hasty pro-
ceedings the aforesaid Thomas Brannock was obliged to Suffer under
a Judgment, which was the utmost rigour put into Execution against

May 13

him. Your Committee do humbly conceive that the Sheriffs pro-

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