Acts. 331

by Means of the Assembly's Continuance, it was impracticable to
finish all such Business in that Court, as by the Laws now in Being
ought to have been then determined.

Liber B. L. C.

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 all such Actions that depended in the
Provincial Court on the aforesaid third Tuesday of May, being the
Day to which Writs were returnable, and which would not bear a
further Continuance, be and are hereby continued until the End of
the next Provincial Court, to be held on the third Tuesday of
October next; any Law. Usage, or Custom, to the contrary not-
withstanding.

[Actions in
the Pro-
vincial Court
of May last
Continu'd to
October
Court.]

June 1. 1749
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Cl. lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry
of this province I will
this be a Law.
Sam: Ogle

The Great Seal in
wax appendant

1 June 1749
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl Up Ho.

I hereby Certifie That Richard Burdus Clerk of the Provincial
Court and of the Secretary's Office of the Province of Maryland
this Day Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of the Province aforesaid
his Council of State and made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Al-
mighty God that he carefully Examined all the Laws contained in
this Book beginning at Folio four Hundred and Sixty five and
Ending at Folio four Hundred and Eighty five with the Original
Acts that Passed the Great Seal
R Burdus
Sworn to this first day of August. Anno Dom. 1749 before me
D. Dulany
SEAL The Seal of the Provincial Court is hereunto Affixed on
behalf of Edmund Jenings Esq^r Secretary of Maryland
p^r R Burdus Clk Cur pvin & Sec^rys Office

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