64 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-May 28, 1737.

L. H. J.

Lib. No. 45

out and Applying £3500 Current money of Maryland to the uses
therein mentioned read the first time and ordered to Lye on the
Table.

p. 706

On Motion of a member leave given to bring in a Bill to Enable
The Treasurers of this Province to pay to the Owners of Slaves
what they shall be Valued at who shall be Executed, or dye in Prison
after Condemnation before Execution on Certificate produced from
the Severall Sheriffs in whose Custody they were.
The House Adjourns untill Monday morning at 9 of the Clock

May 16

Monday morning May 16^h 1737

The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
M^r Johnson Added to the Committee to Enquire Into the State
and Condition of the Arms and ammunition &c^a
The Bill Entituled an Act to Quiet Possessions and to perpetuate
the Bounds of Land was read and Committed for amendments.
A Bill Entituled an Act to Dock the Entail of a Tract of Land
Called Wilsons Grove in the County of Ann Arundell and vesting
the same in Lewis Duvall in fee Simple and for Settleing Other
Lands and Tenements to the same uses read the first time and
ordered to Lye on the Table.
The House Adjourns untill 2 of the Clock in the afternoon

Post Merediem. The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
M^r Mathews Delivers M^r Speaker the following report Viz.

By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice
May the 16^th 1737

Your Committee having had before them a Complaint Relating
to Tenders made of parcells of Tobacco under 500 Viz. That
persons under Execution for Smaller Debts have Applyed to a
Justice of the peace in order to appoint Persons to View Such
Tobacco pursuant as they Apprehended to an Act of Assembly in
that Case provided and that Such Justice Conceiving it was not
in his power to have Such Tobacco Viewed or give any person under
Execution any relief on Such Application; by which means many
are held in Prison because the Creditor will not receive his Debt
nor will the Sheriff receive the Same, And your Committee having
Inspected into the Act Entituled an Act for the Relief of Debtors
and ascertaining the manner of Tenders in Tobacco and the Supple-
mentary Act thereto are of Opinion that the same are Deficient in
the particulars aforesaid and Apprehend where there is the same