228 Assembly Proceedings, May 26-June 22, 1741.

L. H. J,

The Condition of the Above Obligation is such that if the Above
Bound Robert Hopkins do and shall from time to time Pay or Cause
to be Paid to the abovementioned Edmund Jenings his Executors
Administrators or Assigns all Fees which hereafter shall be due to
the said Edmund Jenings as Secretary of this Province in two Causes
between the Lord Proprietary at the Request of the said Thomas
Hopkins Plaintiff and Thomas Hopkins and Francis Armstrong
Defendants in the Provincial Court according to the Regulation
made by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary in Council the
14^th day of April 1733 on or before the 10^th day of May after the
same shall be demanded, then the Above Obligation to be Void other-
wise to be and remain in full force and Virtue in Law, But if default
be made in the Payment of the said Fees, or any part thereof on or
before the time aforesaid, then We impower any Attorney in any
Court of Record in this Province to appear for Us at the suit of the
Above named Edmund Jenings his Executors Administrators or
Assigns and to receive a declaration on the Above Obligation, and
thereupon to confess Judgment by Nil dicit cognovit Actionem non
sum Informatus or otherwise hereby releasing all the Errors that
may happen in the said Judgment suing out Execution thereupon or
in any of the Proceedings thereunto relating
Your Committee humbly Conceive that the Oath of Judge or Jus-
tice taken upon every new Commission ought to be entered at large,
as part of the Record Whereby it may appear that no Deviation is
made in the same
Your Committee also Conceive that taking such Bonds for Fees
before they become due is contrary to Law very Oppressive and an
Aggrievance on his Majestys Liege Subjects, but is humbly sub-
mitted to the Consideration of your Honourable House
Signed p Order William Cumming Cl Com.
Which being Read the House unanimously Concurs with
The House Adjourns until 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Post Meridiem

The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
Col^o Hynson hath leave to go Home
The Report from the Committee of Aggrievances &c^a brought
in on Friday last and referred for Consideration this day, was Read
and the Question was put that the House Concur therewith Resolved
in the Affirmative

For the Affirmative

M^r Read M^r Middleton M^r Colvill
Waughop Courts Rumsey
Swann Smallwood Pearce
Aisquith Stoughton Sheredine