190 Assembly Proceedings, May 3-23, 1738.

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Lib. No. 45

ceeding was very unjust, and that the Court denying an imparlance
did Act Arbitrarily, which proceedings are an Aggrievance in their
Opinion, but humbly submit it to all the Consideration of the. House.
Signed p Order of the Committee Tho^s Lynn Cl.

M^r Matthews from the Committee of Aggrievances delivers fol-
lowing Report

By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice
May 13^th 1738.

Your Committee on the complaint of M^r John Brannock of Dor-
chester County a Member of your Honourable House, conceive that
M^r Peter Taylor late Sheriff of the said County and John Mackall
as under sheriff of the said Taylor have committed divers Extor-
tions Exactions and grievous Offences, against the Rights and Lib-
erty of the Subject, and contrary to all good rules and Justice which
ought to subsist in any Civil Society
I^st The said Peter Taylor having an Execution for John Philips
of the said County at the Suit of Charles Goldsborough Clerk of
the said County, the said Philips went to the said Goldsborough and
paid the debt for which the said Execution issued, and had from the
said Clerk a note or Letter to Signify a countermand of the said
Execution to the Sheriff, notwithstanding which He the said Philips
was executed and obliged to pay full Execution and Imprisonment
Fees.
2^dly That under the colour of a Judgment obtained by M^r Mor-
decai Hammond of Ann Arundell County, against Thomas Pattison
of Dorchester County and without the knowledge of the said Ham-
mond under colour of a second Execution on the said Judgment
altho a former had been complied with by the said Pattison to John
Mackeel as under Sheriff of the s^d Taylor He the s^d Mackeel obliged
him the said Pattison to pay the Debt a second time and Charges of
Execution on such second pretended Execution.
3^dly That under colour of his Office and by menacing Speeches,
violent threats and by a powerful hand, the said John Mackeel as
Under Sheriff afs^d did take and carry away from a certain Oliver
Fairbrother of the said Dorchester County one plow-horse of the
Value at least of twelve pounds, altho the said Fairbrother did not
owe the said Sheriff more than two Levies or some such trifle.
4^thly That the said John Mackeel under colour of his said Office
took and carried away a plow Horse of the Value of ten pounds, from
a certain Mary Saunders of the said County altho the said Mary did

not owe the said Sheriff above a couple of Levies

5thly That the said John Mackeel under colour of his said Office
took and carried away from a certain Charles Grayham of the said