268 Assembly Proceedings, May 24-June 24, 1749.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46
June 13

Rutter was, and had been some Years before, in Possession, by
Deed, and living thereon, of thirty Acres, Part of the said Jacob's
Lot; the whole Tract containing by Patent only fifty Acres. That
the said Young, as Receiver, claimed the Rents or Arrearages only
from the Year 1741: whereby the Rent or Arrears of the said
twenty Acres, Part of Jacob's Lot, possessed by him the said Hall,
would have amounted only to five Shillings Sterling, calculating the
Rent and Arrears for six Years; whereby it appears, that the said
Jasper Hall was overcharged at that Time for the Sum of seven
Shilling'3 Sterling; but that the said Jasper Hall notwithstanding
paid the Sum of twelve Shillings Sterling, with fifteen Shillings
Currency Cost thereon.
That in the Year 1747, on December the fourteenth, a certain
Isaac Risteau, as Deputy Sheriff, likewise distrained upon the said
twenty Acres, Part of the said Jacob's Lot, a Feather-bed, without
mentioning for what Sum, only in general for Rent due on the
Premisses: After which the said Jasper Hall paid unto a certain
Thomas Sheredine, junior, as Deputy Sheriff, in consequence of the
said Distress, the Sum of two Pounds fifteen Shillings Currency, in

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lieu and stead of thirty-four Shillings Sterling, besides Costs.
And it likewise appears unto your Committee, that the said Hall,
at the Time of making the last Distress, and for some Time before,
had Right to a certain Tract of Land, called Major's Choice, in the
same County, containing one hundred and forty Acres, the yearly
Rent whereof amounting to five Shillings and seven Pence half-
penny per Annum; which, from 1741 to 1747, the Time of making
the Distress, would have been thirty three Shillings and nine Pence
Sterling. Your Committee take Leave to observe, that the latter
Distress was made on different Premisses, and that altho' the said
Jasper Hall had a Right to the aforesaid Land called Major's Choice,
that it was not then, nor hath been yet legally conveyed to him, the
Fee Simple remaining in a certain Jacob Morris.
Your Committee further observe, that on the sixteenth Day of
December, 1748, a certain Nicholas Orrick, as Deputy to a certain
Roger Boyce, Gent. High Sheriff of the said County, by Order of
Mr. Wm. Young, Receiver of his Lordship's Quit-Rents as afore-
said, made a Distress on the aforesaid twenty Acres, Part of Jacob's
Lot, of one Cart or Plough Horse belonging to him the said Hall,
for the Sum of twelve Shillings and nine Pence Sterling for Quit
Rents, without mentioning for what Lands; which said Horse the
said Orrick carried away, and had him appraised at four Pounds
Sterling, and some Time afterwards sold him for four Pounds ten
Shillings Currency, as the said Orrick says; which Horse, nor any
Consideration for the same, hath hitherto been rendered to him the
said Hall.