568 Appendix.

That many of the reputable Inhabitants of said County will not
be able to procure Special Bale at such a remote Corner of the County
unless they bring their Friends and Acquaintances Forty or Fifty
miles and pay their Expences going and Coming and those who
cannot so Procure them at an Immense Expence must be Committed
to a Loathsome Goal.

That Joppa is more Central than Baltemore Town the latter being
situated at one End of the County.

That your Petitioners Humbly conceive that the Suitors being
engaged at such Times in persuit of their Private Affairs would often
retard the Public Business and that Examples alledged from a Court
House encreasing the Trade of a Town if true if they proved any
thing would amount to this That In conveniences and Grievances of
the highest Nature must be submitted to, to aggrandize and enrich
a Place almost on the Verge of the County at the Expence and to
the Impoverishment of all the Rest of it,

That your Petitioners Humbly conceive that Court Houses built
at remote Corners of Counties tho in Towns have in every Govern-
ment in America been Loudly complained of by the People aggrieved
as being built for private Purposes or when Counties were small
rather than for Public convenience and are so far from increasing
the Foreign Trade of such Places in some .Neighbouring Govern-
ments that others not having the same Advantages near them have
equalled if not exceeded them in Trade and Size.

That your Petitioners Humbly conceive that the true Reason why
Business is not carried on with that Dispatch at Joppa as it ought
to be arises from the Multiplicity of it and that as the County now
contains 8,256 Taxables it must Increase in Business so as it will be
Impossible in a few Years to transact it at one Court House and
thereby a Failure of Justice ensue that a Division of said County
must be then unavoidably and your Petitioners therefore Humbly
pray that no removall of said Court House may be enacted to take
place antecedant to a Division of said County but that it may remain
in its present Situation and that your Excellency and Honours will
appoint a Time when your Petitioners may be heard on said Petition
by their Council.

And your Petitioners as in Duty Bound will ever Pray.

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		Greenbury Dorsey Jun.r	Nathan Gallion
		John Brickerton	Asbery Cord
		John Garrettson	Thomas Brown
		John Beedle Hall	The mark of
		George Copeland William Bradford Ju.r	John Bott James Stewart