The Lower House. 297

M^r Matthews from the Committee of Aggrievances &^c Delivers
M^r Speaker the following Report.

By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice
May the 9^th 1739.

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
Sherriff of Dorchester County to be received.
That the said John Brannock offered to pay the said Taylor and
his Deputy John Mackiell the said Several fees due and for which the
said Bonds were taken, after which Tender he the said Taylor con-
trary to all Justice Reason and Law procured Judgments to be ren-
dred on the said Bonds.
That the said John after Rendering the said Judgment also, in
like manner made Tender of the said Tobacco.
Notwithstanding which repeated Tenders of him the said John
was served with the Executions on the 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 conceive to be a great
Aggrievance and abuse to the Rights and Liberty of the Subject.
And therefore Humbly Submit the same to this House.
Signed p order of the Committee S. Bordley Clk.

The House Concurs with the Report. Ordered that the Clerk
make out Summons's for M^r Peter Taylor and M^r John Mackiel to
attend this House on Monday the 21^st Instant to answer the Com-
plaint of M^r John Brannock, and Summons's for Francis Watson &c.
The House Adjourned untill the Morrow Morning at nine of the
Clock.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Thursday Morning May 10^th 1739
The House met according to Adjournment.
Doct^r Carroll from the Committee of Laws brings in a Bill En-
tituled an Act for the Benefit of the Poor and Encouragement of
Industry, which was read the first time and ordered to lye on the
Table.
On Reading the second time the Bill Entituled an Act for con-
tinuing an Act of Assembly of this Province Entituled an Act for
the Tryal of all matters of fact in the several County's where they
have arisen or shall arise. The Question was put whether the
said Bill pass or not. Resolved Unanimously in the Negative.

May 10