504 Assembly Proceedings, October 4-November 26, 1763.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

p. 513

for the Amount of the duty of fifteen Pence p Hogshead which
they shall respectively receive for Tobacco that shall be exported
after the first day of December next instead of Remitting such
Bills of Exchange to the Trustees in London as was directed by the
above recited Act and the said Commissioners or Trustees for
emitting the Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly are
hereby directed and impowered to receive the same and enter them
in their Books to the Credit of the Province of Maryland and that
the said Bills of Exchange so by them received shall be the first
Bills of Exchange they shall Pay away to those who shall bring in
Bills of Credit to be Sunk at the end of the said Sixteen Years and
the Delivery of the said Bills by the said Commissioners or Trustees
shall be a Payment and discharge of the said Bills of Credit so to
be brought in and sunk as fully and amply as Bills Drawn by the
said Commissioners or Trustees upon the Trustees in England
According to the Directions of the said recited Act any thing
therein Contained to the Contrary Notwithstanding

19.^th Novem.^r 1763
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p.^r Order
MMacnemara Clk lo Ho

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law.
Horo: Sharpe

19.^th Novem.^r 1763
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
JRoss Clk Up Ho.

The Great Seal

in Wax appendant

No. 22

An Act for the Advancement of Justice

[No. XXIII]
[Passed
21^st of
November]
[Preamble]

Whereas Notwithstanding the several Laws heretofore made for
the Advancement of Justice amendment of the Law and Aiding and
Supplying several Defects in Judicial Proceedings great delay trouble
and expences have been and still are Occasioned by Demurrers
Arresting and reversing of Judgments and Staying executions by
Writs of Error and Appeal there being yet no Sufficient Provision
made for the aiding such Omissions Errors and Imperfections as
are Usually taken Advantage of by Special Demurers and also for
Aiding such Defects in the entrys of Clerks as are frequently taken
Advantage of on the Prosecuting Writs of Error or Appeal as
well as divers other Advantages of other defects or Pretended

[Courts of
Law shall
give judg-
ment ac-
cording as
the Right of
the Cause,
&c shall ap-
pear to them,
without
regarding
omissions,
Errors, &c.]

Defects or Errors which only serve to prevent or direct the Ex-
amination of and giving Judgment on the very Right of the Cause
For Remedy Whereof

Be it enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governor and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of
the same That in all Actions to be commenced after this Session
of Assembly the Justices of the several Courts of Law within this