528 Assembly Proceedings, May 16-July 11, 1747.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46

reside within this province, contrary to the Canons of our Holy
Church, and the Statute Laws of our Mother Country, highly inde-
cent and unbecoming, brings scandal on God's Holy and truly Chris-
tian Religion, and is greatly injurious to the people. That in par-
ticular, the parishioners of St. Paul's parish, have been deprived of
the Comforts of the administration of the said Thomas Chase, in
his ffunctions as Clergyman, in the said parish, ever since the 2 I^st
Day of November 1746, the Time on which he was first Executed
and Imprisoned on the said Bond and Judgment, notwithstanding
they are Chargeable with, and pay the Tax aforesaid.
Your Committee humbly conceive, such Actings and doings is
a great Grievance, and very much tends to lessen the opinion of the
people of his Lordship the Lord Proprietary, and alienate their
minds and Affections from his Lordship, his good Rule and Gov-
ernment; but is humbly submitted to the Consideration of your
Honourable House. Signed per Order, W^m Wilkins, Clerk
N^o 1 Maryland ss. Know all men by these presents, That I
Thomas Chase of Dorset County Clerk, am held and firmly Bound
unto Jeanette Bourdillion Widow, in the full and just Quantity of
ffifty Two Thousand pounds of Tobacco; to be paid to the said
Jeanette, her Executors Administrators and Assignes: To the which
payment well and truly to be made, I hereby bind myself, my Heirs,
Exec^rs Administrators and Assigns, firmly by these presents. Sealed
with my Seal, and Dated this fifth Day ffebruary 1744.
The Condition of the above Obligation is such, That if the above
Bound Thomas Chase, his Executors Administ^rs or Assigns do and
shall on or before the first Day of March, which shall be in the year
of Our Lord 1745, pay or Cause unto the abovenamed Jeanette, her
Executors Administrators or Assigns the full and just Quantity of
13000 pounds of Tobacco and also pay unto the said Jeanette her
Executors Administrators or Assigns the further Sum of 13000
pounds of Tobacco, on the ffirst Day of March, which shall be in
the year of our Lord 1746, then the above obligation to be void, else
to be in full force and virtue, But in Case the said Thomas Chase
shall make Default in either of the said payments, then the said
Thomas Chase doth hereby impower any Attorney in any Court of
Record in this province, to appear for him the said Thomas Chase,
at the suit of the above mentioned Jeanette Bourdillion, and to Re-
ceive a Declaration on the above Obligation, and thereupon to Con-
fess Judgment by, Nil dicit Cognovit actionem, non sum Informatus,
or otherwise, hereby releasing all the Errors that may happen upon
the said Judgment suing out Execution thereon, or in any of the
proceedings thereunto Relating. Thomas Chase O
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of
Edm. Jenings John Raitt