Acts. 639

may be an obstruction to Justice in the said several Causes, without
the aid of the Legislature ;

Session Laws

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That the Chief Justice of the said County
Court, the Sheriff of the said County, and the several Attorneys
practising in the same, shall, and they are hereby directed and re-
quired to deliver up to the aforesaid Edmund Porteus, Clerk of the
said County, their several and respective Docketts for the aforesaid

The Chief
Justice, &c.
of Charles
County to
deliver the
Clerk their
Docketts

Courts of June, August and November last, by the said Clerk, or
his sworn Deputy, made out and delivered to them respectively, for
their respective uses, at the said several County Courts.

P. 38

And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said
Clerk shall and may in all such Proceedings and Causes, whether
Criminal or Civil, as shall appear from any or either of such Dock-
etts, where no Execution hath been issued therein, and where Execu-
tion hath been issued therein, then from such Execution to have
been at either of the said County Courts finished and brought to
Judgment, or other end or determination, make out and enter up
among the Records of the said County, a minute, abstract or abridg-
ment of such Proceedings so determined in such manner, and with
such Judgment, End, or other Determination, as shall from the
major Part of the said Docketts, and the Justices, Sheriff's and
Attorneys Minutes and Entries thereon, and from such Executions
as are already issued, or such Judgments, Ends, or other Determi-
nations respectively (always giving the preference to such Execu-
tions already issued in such points as shall respectively appear upon
the same) appear to have been the Judgment, End, or other Deter-
minations, of such Cases respectively.

Directions
to the Clerk
of Charles
County in
the making
up the
Records

And be it further Enacted by the Authority, Advice and Consent
aforesaid, That all and every the Executions, and other judicial
Process, whether grounded upon any Judgment or Determination
made or obtained in any of the said Three Courts, or in any former
Court, and which Execution or other judicial Process has been re-
turnable and returned to either of the said Three Courts, and all
and every of the Acts and Proceedings of the Justices, the Sheriff,
or the Clerk, of the said County, in either of the said Three Courts,
by virtue and in pursuance of such Executions or other judicial
Process, shall be ascertained, entered and made up in like manner.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority, Advice and Consent
aforesaid, That in case of any uncertainty or other difficulty to the
said Clerk, in the making such abstract, minute, or abridgment, he
shall, and is hereby required and directed to, apply to the Justices of
the said County at any future sitting in Court, for their assistance
and direction therein, and they are hereby required and authorized
to give the same.

In difficult
Cases the
Justices to
advise