Acts. 523

Province, for staying Execution after the tenth Day of May yearly,
to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.
And whereas by an Act of Assembly, made at a Session of
Assembly, begun and held at Annapolis, on the twenty-sixth Day of
April, in the Year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and fifteen,
entituled, An Act for appointing certain Days on which the several
and respective County Courts, within this Province, are to be held,
it is, amongst other Things, Enacted, That any two Justices of the
several and respective County Courts, one to be of the Quorum,
should have full Power and Authority, when and as often as Need
should require, to adjourn the said County Courts, Process, and
Proceedings, therein depending, to such short Time after as they
should see convenient: And whereas some Doubts have arisen,
whether, by Virtue of the said Act, the two Justices aforesaid one
of the Quorum have Power to adjourn a County Court to the Court
in Course, as also, whether by Virtue of that Act the two Justices
one of the Quorum have Power to call a County Court; and whether
several County Courts may not, by one or both of the Means afore-
said, have been discontinued, and the Process and Proceedings
therein ended and finished, and such as were then undetermined,
may not have been thereby rendered null and void: To remove which
several Doubts for the future,
Be it Enacted, by the Authority, Advice, and Consent aforesaid,

Liber H. S.
No. 1

That it shall and may be lawful to and for any two Justices of every
County, one of them to be of the Quorum, in Case of Necessity,
to prevent the Discontinuance of their respective County Courts,
and for no other End or Purpose whatsoever, to call such County
Court on the Day to which the same shall have been adjourned,
and also for the like Necessity, and tor the same Reason, and no
other, to adjourn any County Court to any future Time not subse-
quent to the Day by the above-mentioned Act appointed for the

[Two Jus-
tices, in Case
of Necessity
only, may
call or
adjourn
Courts.

meeting of the Court in Course. Provided always, That no Busi-
ness or Proceedings whatsoever, relative to such County Court, other
than the calling or adjourning as aforesaid, shall be had, done, or
transacted, in or by any Court so as aforesaid by two Magistrates
called, unless, after the meeting at such Court of such Number of
Magistrates, and so qualified as shall be by the Commissions of the
Peace for each County respectively directed.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all
and every County Court, and all 'Process and Proceedings what-
soever therein respectively had and transacted, which may, at any
Time, heretofore have been discontinued, by either a miscalling or
misadjourning, or a defective calling or adjourning, as aforesaid,
and which have, notwithstanding such a Discontinuance, proceeded
to the Transaction of Business, and hearing and determining of
Suits, Indictments, or other Prosecutions, or Process, whatsoever,

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