The Lower House. 365

and upwards we are apt to believe that many who might have equitable
Claims for small Sums would form the like prudential Judgment and
Acquiesce under frauds and wrongs rather than undergo the necessary
attendance, Trouble, and Expence to Obtain Justice at so dear a rate

As therefore the Measures of redress would be more intolerable
than the Injury, and thus Stinting the County Courts, Chancery
Jurisdiction, would be withholding an adequate Remedy; We hope
your Honours will Consent that, that part of our Bill shall Stand,
by which a moderate Concurrent Jurisdiction will be Continued, and
Justice administred near the homes of Contending parties, and that
too, more Speedily and with much less Expence than in the high
Court of Chancery, a Jurisdiction exercised for ten years past, ap-
proved from Experience, familiarized to the People, and on which
the retaining many Equity Suits already begun in the County Courts
now Depends
Signed p Order M. Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Was Sent to the Upper house by M^r Waters & M^r W^m Adams.

M^r Ringgold from the Conferees delivers M^r Speaker the follow-
ing proposals (Vizt)
Maryland ss.^th
Nov.^r 9.^th 1763
At a meeting of the Conferees appointed by both houses of
Assembly

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Nov. 9

were present.
The Hon.^bl Daniel Dulany Esq^r
The Hon.^ble John Ridout Esq^r of the Upper house
The Hon.^ble Philip Key Esq^r
M^r Murdock M^r Allen

M^r Graham M^r Hanson
of the Lower House
M^r Johnson M.^r Key

M.^r Hall M^r Ringgold
The honble Daniel Dulany Esq.^r chosen Chairman and Robert
Couden their Clerk.
Whereupon It was proposed by the Conferrees of the Upper house
that the Salarys of the Inspectors, and all charges attending Inspec-
tion be Settled in Tobacco; from money at 12/6^S p Cent, and then
the same be payable in the following Species of mony Viz^t

p. 170

lb

Joannes's to pay.......................................

920

half Joannes .........................................

460

Moydores ...........................................

348

English Guineas .....................................

272

f rench Guineas ......................................

268