The Lower House. 381

A Bill Entituled An Act to cut and Bar the Intail of part of a
certain Tract of Land called Williams Range in Prince Georges
County and to settle other Lands in Lieu thereof read the first and
second time by an Especial Order and will pass sent to the Upper
House by M^r Moale and M^r Gassaway
The House adjourned until two a Clock in the Afternoon

Post Meridiem The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
M^r Dulany hath leave to be Absent till Monday
Ordered that the Committee of Accounts employ a Clerk Assistant
A Bill Entituled An Act for the Security of Orphans and Cred-
itors read the first time and ordered to lye on the Table.
A Bill Entituled An Act to oblige the several Sheriffs of this
Province to keep their Prisoners in the County Goals that are now
built, or shall be hereafter built, read the first time and Ordered to
lye on the Table
M^r Mathews from the Committee of Aggrievances &c. delivers
M^r Speaker the following Report.

By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice
June I^st 1739

Your Committee most humbly Observe that since the erecting of
A Chancery Court by the Laws of this Province the Custom and
Usage has been when matters were to be examined into out of Court
that upon the prayer of the Parties to the Chancellor a Commission
did issue to four Creditable Gentlemen of the Neighbourhood most
capable and living comodious to examine Evidences Accounts and
other matters and to make a Return of such their Proceedings into
the said Chancery Court, That the said Method has been found
Convenient and of no great Charge to the Suitors in the said Court
That of late a new Office has been erected and an Officer appointed
in the said Chancery Court without any law of this Province to
support the same and by whom new fees are taken Burthensom and
Oppressive and the said Office and Officer no way answering the
Convenience and Service of the People equal to the Commissioners
so as aforesaid time out of mind appointed to the same purposes
and uses
Your Committee most humbly Conceive that according to the laws
of our Mother Country (the Birth right of every Liege Subject
here) that no new Offices can be erected with new fees nor new fees
appointed to old Offices without our Common Assent in Assembly
wherefore and inasmuch as the Contrary has been done in this case
Your Committee most humbly conceive the same to be an Ag-
grievance and innovation on the right of his Majestys Liege Natural

L. H. J.
Lib. No.45