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enjoyed uninterruptedly many years: Ordered, that leave be given to
bring in a bill. The Question was put that Leave be given to bring
in a bill Concerning Testamentary affairs this Session, Resolved
in the Negative, the bill Entituled an Act for the speedy and
Effectual Publication of the Laws of this province, and for the En-
couragement of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis, printer: read
and passed. Sent to the upper House by M^r Denton and M^r Gassa-
way. M^r Matthews, from the Committee of Aggrievances &ca.
delivers M^r Speaker the following report, Viz :

by the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice,
May 26^th 1739.

Your Committee have received a Complaint from M^r Joseph Hall
one of the members of your Honourable House, returned, for Calvert
County, that his Mother M^rs Ann Cockshutt, widow and relict of
Thomas Cockshutt, late rector of All Saints' Parish in the said County
Deceased, having occasion to Commence a suit against Charles
Drury and John Campden of Prince Georges County, in the Provin-
cial Court, did accordingly apply to Daniel-Dulany, Esq^r one other
Member of your Honourable House, as her Attorney, to Commence
and prosecute the same in her behalf, which he accordingly under-
took, that some time after, the said Daniel Dulany, Esq^r wrote to
his said mother, informing her that the action could not go on,
untill Security was given in the Secretary's office for the fees which
should accrue due to the Secretary in the said Action, that some
time after, the said Joseph Hall meeting Edmund Jenings Esq^r
then and still Secretary of this province, at Calvert County assizes
he informed him of what the said Daniel Dulany Esq^r had advised
his Mother as aforesaid, and at the same time offered the said
Edmund Jenings, Esq^r his own bond, or any other Security for

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the said fees; but the said Edmund Jenings Esq^r pretended to be
in a hurry, and said that he Could not then take such Bond, but it
might be done another time, whereupon the said Joseph Hall de-
manding of the said Edmund Jenings Esq^r wheather his said Mother
should not be a Sufferer for want of such bond, he did in Answer
assure the said Hall, she should not. that Notwithstanding the
offers and Precautions so as aforesaid made and taken by the said
Hall, and the assurance to him given by the said Edmund Jenings
Esq^r as aforesaid, the Declaration Tendered by the said Daniel
Dulany Esq^r on behalf of the said Ann Cockshutt, against the said
Charles Drury and John Campden, was among Several Declarations
and other Pleadings, refused to be received into the said Secretarys
office and the Reason given and Indorsed on the said Declaration and
other Pleading's (in pursuance of a Demand made by Daniel Du-
lany, Esq^r for the reason thereof, and to Indorse the same as afore-
said) by the Clerk of the said office was that he the said Clerk, had

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