The Lower House. 303

By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justices
May 10^th 1739

Your Committee having received a Complaint from James Plum-
mer who was and still is Seized in fee of four hundred and thirty
nine Acres of land in Prince Georges County at the Annual Rent of
four shillings p Hundred which in the whole amounts unto about
the Annual Sum of Seventeen Shillings and seven pence Sterling.
That William Diggs Receiver of his Lordships Land rents for Prince
Georges County did in the year Seventeen hundred and thirty five
Demand and actually Receive from the said Plummer the sum of
Seventeen Shillings and nine pence half penny sterling for one years
rent of the said four Hundred thirty nine acres which is two pence
half penny more than was due or payable from the said Plummer
to the said Diggs for his rent, that upon the said Plummer Discov-
ering such over Payment be applyed to the said Diggs to allow the
same to the said Plumer whereupon The said Digges promised such
over payment should be allowed him his then next years payment.
That said Plummer the year following applying to the said Diggs
to pay him, the said Digges Years rent then due on the said Land
the said Diggs did not only then refuse to allow the said Plummer
the said Two pence half penny Sterling as so much over paid the
foregoing year, but upon the said Plummers Tendering to the said
Digges at the said Digges own house the place by himself appointed
the Sum of Seventeen shillings and Seven pence Sterling which was
the full amount of the Annual Rent the due for the said Land the
said Diggs refused to receive the same and Insisted on the Sum of
Seventeen Shillings and nine pence half penny Sterling for such
rent, which is two pence half penny Sterling more than was at that
time also actually due for the said Land. That the said Plummer
refusing to pay the Exorbitant Sum Demanded by the said Digges,
He the said Digges did Declare that he would receive the said Plum-
mers Rents but ordered him to go down to S^t Mary's County and pay
the same there whereupon the said Plummer Asking who the said
Digges had there to receive it he the said Digges answered he the
said Plummer might go Look and if he did not go down to St. Marys
he the said Digges would Distrain and run him the Plummer to
Charge. That the said Digges in pursuance of such his Declaration
did accordingly Distrein the goods of the said Plummer, but the said
Diggs did Distrein for no more than the Sum of Seventeen shillings
and Six pence half penny which Sum is Short of the Sum Actually
Tendered by the said Plummer to the said Digges by which Distress
so as aforesaid unjustly made, the said Plummer was Burthened
with the payment of one hundred and thirty four pounds of Tobacco
as officers fees that the said Plummer being also Indebted unto the
said Digges as receiver as aforesaid in one half Years rent for the
said Land due the twenty fifth Day of March last did Accordingly

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45
p. 803