Acts. 477

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 Causes, Pleas, Process, and Pro-
ceedings, either Civil or Criminal, now depending in or returnable to
the said County Court of Talbot, to be held the first Tuesday of

Liber H. S.
No. 1

March in this present Year, shall be, and are, by Virtue of this Act,
adjourned and continued from the said first Tuesday of March,

p. 204

until the first Tuesday of June next, and shall be in the same Plight
and Condition as they would be on the first Tuesday of March.
And that all Causes, Pleas, Process, and Proceedings, either Civil
or Criminal, now depending in or returnable to the said County Court
of Dorchester, to be held the second Tuesday of March in this pres-
ent Year, shall be, and are, by Virtue of this Act, adjourned and
continued from the said second Tuesday of March, until the second
Tuesday of June next, and shall be in the same Plight and Condition
as they would be on the second Tuesday of March; any Law, Usage,

or Custom, to the contrary, notwithstanding

And whereas many Persons who are Plaintiffs in Actions now
depending in the said Courts, and which would be determined at the
said first and second Tuesdays of March, if the said Courts were to
sit and proceed to Business, may be indigent and necessitous, and may
greatly, if not wholly depend on the Sums of Money or Tobacco, for
which they have commenced and prosecuted such Actions, for sup-
plying their Necessities, Payment of their Debts, or carrying on the
Business of their Professions.

[Adjourn-
ment of
Talbot and
Dorchester
March
Courts to
June.]

Be it Enacted, That on all Judgments which shall be had and
recovered at June Court next, in Actions which are continued by this
Act, it shall and may be lawful, at any Time before the tenth Day of
August next, to issue Executions, to satisfy the Debts, Damages,
and Costs, therein mentioned which said Executions shall stand in
the same Condition, and be equally available to the Person or Persons
suing out of the same, as if the same had been sued out before the
tenth Day of May; any Thing, in any of the Laws of this Province,
for staying Execution after the tenth Day of May, yearly, to the
contrary thereof, notwithstanding.

[Executions
issued on
Judgments
had in June
to be under
the like Cir-
cumstances
with those
on Judg-
ments in
March.]

1st March 1756 On behalf of the Right 1^st March 1756
Read and assented to Honble the Lord Pro- Read and assented to
by the Lower house of prietary of this Province by the Upper house of
Assembly I will this be a Law Assembly
Signed p Order Hor.^o Sharpe Sign'd p Order
MMacnemara Cl lo ho JRoss Cl Up ho

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