Acts. 479

Execution after the tenth Day of May, yearly, to the contrary
thereof, notwithstanding.

1.st 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
Sign'd p Order Hor.^o Sharpe Sign'd p Order
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Liber H. S.
No. 1

No. 4

An Act for the Adjournment and Continuance of Queen-Anne's
County Court.
Whereas some of the Justices of the said County, and also some

p. 206

of the Attorneys practising the Law in the said Court, are Members
of the Assembly, and obliged to attend their Duty therein.
Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gov-

[Preamble.]

ernor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That all Causes and Pleas now depending
in the said County Court, and which, by Adjournment of the said
Court, are to be determined on the Monday next, before the fourth
Tuesday of March in this present Year, shall be, and are, by Virtue
of this Act, continued from the Monday before the fourth Tuesday
of March aforesaid, until the fourth Tuesday of June next; and
that the said Causes and Pleas shall be then in the same Plight and
Condition as they would have been on the Monday before the fourth
Tuesday of March aforesaid; any Law, Usage, or Custom, to the
contrary, notwithstanding.
And be it further Enacted, That all Causes, Pleas, Process, and

[Queen-
Anne's
County
adjourned
Court
continued
to June.]

Proceedings, either Civil or Criminal, now depending in, or return-
able to the County Court of the said County, to be held the fourth
Tuesday of March this present Year, shall be, and are, by Virtue of
this Act, continued from the fourth Tuesday of March aforesaid,
until the fourth Tuesday in June next; and that all and every the said
Causes, Pleas, Process, and Proceedings, shall be then in the same
Plight and Condition as they would have been on the fourth Tues-
day of March aforesaid; any Law, Usage, or Custom, to the con-
trary, notwithstanding.
And whereas many Persons, who are Plaintiffs in Actions now
depending in the said Court, and which would be determined at
the said Monday before the fourth Tuesday of March aforesaid,
and on the aforesaid fourth Tuesday of March, if the said Court was
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

[All causes,
&c. either
Civil or
Criminal,
depending in
or returnable
to March
Court,
adjourned to
June Court.]