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County Two Cows and two Yearling Steers Value at least seven
pounds altho the said Thomas did not owe the said Sheriff above the
Sum that may arise to two Levies, with many more Exactions and
Extortions Committed by the said John Mackeel but too long to
enumerate, which foregoing recited Acts your Committee conceive
to be Aggrievances, but humbly Submit to your honourable House.
Signed p order of the Committee, Tho^s Lynn Cl.

M^r Matthews delivers following report.

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

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Your Committee having received a complaint from M^r John
Brannock one of the members of your Honourable House, that the
said John Brannock gave Bonds payable to Edmund Jenings Esq^r
with power to confess Judgment on the said Bonds For Fees arising
due to the said Edmund Jenings as Secretary of this Province, which
Bonds the said Edmund Jenings remitted to M^r Peter Taylor then
Sheriff of Dorchester County to be received, that the said John Bran-
nock offered to pay the said Taylor and his Deputy John Mackeel
the said several Fees due and for which the said Bonds were taken,
notwithstanding which tenders, and repeated Messages to the said
Taylor to receive the said Tobacco, He the said Taylor contrary to
all justice reason and Law, procured Judgments to be rendred on
the said Bonds, and the said John after rendring the said Judgments
made tender of the said Tobacco, notwithstanding which repeated
Tenders and Messages of him the said John Brannock He the said
John was served with Executions on the said Judgments and his
Body detained in prison to his great Expence and damage both of his
Person and Fortune, which Actings and Doings your Committee con-
ceive to be a great Aggrievance and Abuse of the right and Liberty
of the Subject and therefore humbly submitted to your Honourable
House
Signed p Order of the Committee Tho^s Lynn Cl.

On reading the said Reports the House ordered the Clerk to issue
Summonses for the several Persons therein complained of, and
ordered M^r Brannock to inform the Clerk of the Persons names,
and likewise the names of the several Evidences to the Facts that
Summonses may issue requiring Them to attend this House next
Monday Seven night.
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker
the Bill entituled an Act reviving An Act of Assembly entituled an
Act concerning Ordinaries &c^a

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