Appendix. 567

That the Town of Joppa is well supplyed with Public Houses
and Accomodations for all the Justices of the Peace and that Such
Persons as depart from said Town at unseasonable Times and expose
themselves to the Inclemency of the Weather cheifly chuse to do so
to avoid the Expence arising from Lodging at Taverns by being
entertain'd Gratis at some Neighbouring House so that the Business
of said Court need not be retarded or late Meetings and early Ad-
journments or Sickness need not arise from that Cause,

That the most Valueable part of the Lands are on the North
East side of the great Falls of Gunpowder and the most Antient
settlements made there and that some sort of difference ought to be
Paid to the Descendants of the first settlers of said County and the
Court House and Records (towards building the Former of which
they contributed the largest Proportion and the Latter of which they
are more deeply Interested in than a part later settled) Ought not to
be removed in Justice at a Distance to remote for them with any
Convenience to resort to the same.

That your Petitioners Humbly Apprehend that the design of
Instituting Courts of Justice is that every Man Injured may have a
speedy Redress for the Wrong sustained at as little Expence and
delay and with as much Convenience as Possible that their Situation
should be the most Convenient for Jurymen Witnesses Suitors and
others having Business there to resort to it and be accomodated w.^th
Necessaries that none but Persons blinded by there Interest would
endeavour a Removall of the Court House to promote the Foreign
Trade of Baltemore Town to the Prejudice of a great Number of
the most Antient and first settled Inhabitants who must be dragged
there from distant Habitations for the sole purpose of leaving some
of their Cash at Taverns &c^a to promote the Trade of said Place
which in your Petitioners Humble opinions had better be Levied on
them by way of Tax to support the Trade of said Town.

That great Part of the Inhabitants from Bush River Gunpowder
Neck and the Pennsylvania Line live from Thirty to Fifty Miles
distants from said Town and cannot return Home till the Expira-
tion of said Courts and that in any Controversiall Suit for £10 or
under Creditors had better resign all Pretentions to the Debt than
Prosecute them at such an Expence as would be Exclusive of Loss of
Time Thirty shillings as least p Term for bare Necessaries.

That many of the Jurors Suitors &c^a would be put to great Ex-
pence at Baltemore Town at Taverns whereas they are now near
Joppa accomodated without any Expence at private Houses

That many reputable Inhabitants from a Scarcity of Cash pre-
vailing among them and being Obliged to attend Courts at Baltemore
Town and also unknown there may be put to great Distress on the
Account of not being Trusted for Necessaries that this must be
unavoidably the Case with poor Debtors.