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Which bills were severally read the first time and ordered to lye
on the Table
A Bill Entituled an Act for Cutting off an Entail and Investing
an Estate of Inheritance in fee simple of and in part of a Tract of
Land called Coopers purchase in Thomas Spalding and Katherine
his wife and to Entail other Lands lying in S^t Marys County in
Leiu thereof. Read the first time and Ordered to lye on the Table.
The Report of the Committee of Aggrievances relating to the Com-
plaint made by James Plummer against W^m Diggs the party Com-
plained against being both heard at the barr of this house and
Evidences Examined, the partys were ordered to withdraw, the
House unanimously Resolved that the facts Complained of were
made appear, and that the thing was irregular and Oppressive.
Resolved further that M^r Diggs be Called in and that M^r Speaker
Acquaint him with the Sense of the House and admonish him to
avoid the like actions for the future. M^r Diggs was Called in M^r
Speaker give him the following Charge. This House having Con-
sidered of the Complaint of James Plummer against you are of
opinion that the thing in it Self is irregular and oppressive and that
Altho' this person alone is Injured in this Particular, yet the thing in
its Consequence may tend to the oppression of the People of this
Province, Tennants to the Lord proprietary in General, in as much
as you not only may by the same Rule use the same practice to others
of whom you are to receive Rents, but that other Receivers of this
province from your Example may do the same, you are therefore
admonished not to be guilty of the like for the future, and you are
ordered to pay the Expence accrued upon this Enquiry, the House
adjourned untill 2 of the Clock in the afternoon.

Post Merediem. the house met according to adjournment.
M^r Matthews from the Committee of Aggrievances &c. Delivers
M^r Speaker the following Report, Viz.
By the Committee of Aggrievance and Courts of Justice May
17^th 1739 Your Committee having received Information that
Charles Goldsborough late Clerk of Dorchester County Court did
during his Continuance in the said office Contrary to all the rules of
Law and Justice, demand and take from Sundry persons in the same
County before he would do or Suffer to be done the business of such
person in the said County Court, Several Recognisances in the
penalty of very large Sums of Money or Tobacco, the Conditions of
which said Recognisances were, that the said Cognizers in the said
Recognisances mentioned should pay and satisfie unto Each of the
Several officers of the said Courts their fee and fees then, at the time
of the taking the said Recognisances respectively due, or which
thereafter should be due, to the said officers from the said Cognizors
in the said Recognisance respectively named.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45
p. 810