376 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45
May 31

Thursday Morning May 31^st 1739.
The House met according to Adjournment &c^a

All Present that were Yesterday except M^r Hynson Col^o Hooper
hath leave of the House to go Home M^r Edward Lloyd hath leave
of the House to go Home on Saturday morning
Edmund Jenings Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker
the following message (See page 245.)
The Address to the Governor being Ingrossed.
Col^o Hanson and Col^o Colvill Ordered to acquaint his Excel-
lency thereof and to desire to know when and where he will receive
it. they return and acquaint the Speaker the Governor will be
Ready to receive the address in the Council Chamber immediately.
Col^o Hanson and twelve more sent to present the Address.
On motion leave Given to bring in a Bill to empower the county
courts to take possession of Estates for the Benefit of Orphans and
creditors where there are no relations or creditors that do administer
in A Certain Time on the deceased Persons Estates.
The Conferees relating to an Officers fee Bill report ( Proceedings
of May 31 , see page 251.)

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The consideration thereof referred until the morrow morning
The House adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Post Meridiem
The House met again according to adjournment &c^a
M^r Mathews from the Committee of Aggrievances &c^a delivers
M^r Speaker the following Report

By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice
May 31^st 1739

Your Committee humbly Observe that his Lordships issuing his
Proclamations declaring his Intention to Vacate Grants of Lands
made by himself or his Ancestors on Pretence that the same con-
tain Surplus within the Metes Courses or natural Bounds by which
the same were Granted and his further declaring his Intention to
Grant the same to any or the first discoverer have and may still
prove of the highest and most Pernicious consequence to the Quiet,
Peace, and Safety of his Majestys Liege Subjects, by Incouraging
Informers, Raising & Propagating Litigious and Expensive Law
Suits, dispossessing Families of their long continued Tenures and
by Invading Property of the highest nature.
That in pursuance of such proclamation his Lordship has accord-
ingly by his Attorney General filed several Informations in Chancery
against divers his Majestys Liege Subjects calling in Question and
with full design and Intention by his said Lordship or his Chan-