Acts. 81

And be it further Enacted that the Provincial Courts Shall be
held during the Continuance of this Act on the third Tuesdays in May
and October Yearly at the City of Annapolis
And be it further Enacted by the Authority Advice Consent afore-
said that that part of an act of Assembly Entituled an Act causing
Grand and Petit Jurors to come to the Provincial and County Courts
and Ascertaining their Allowances made at a Session of Assembly
begun and held at the City of Annapolis the Twenty Sixth Day of
April Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and fifteen Which relates to
Summoning Grand and Petit Jurors to Attend the Provincial Courts
be and is hereby repealed and made void,

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Time of
Provincial
Courts.]
[Part of
an Act
repealed]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent
aforesaid that the Secretary for the time being Shall cause every
record that Shall be Ordered by any Attorney of the Provincial
Court to be made Out for the Tryal of any Issues at the Assizes
to be transmitted to the Clerk of Assize of the Circuit Where the
Issue is to be tried (Who by this Act is Obliged to receive and
carry the same to the Circuit) before the Assizes for that Shore
Where the Issue is to be tried begins under the Penalty of Paying
to the Party that suffers for Want of the record being transmitted
Such Costs and Damages as Shall by the Justices of his Lordships
Provincial Court judicially Sitting be Ordered and Adjudged Which
said Justices are hereby upon Complaint made to them required
after a Summary Manner to Proceed to Judgment thereon Provided

[Duty of the
Secretary in
Regard to
Records]

always that the Secretary Shall not be Obliged to Answer any
Damages or Cost to any Person by Virtue of this Act unless Orders
in Writing for transmitting the Record as aforesaid be left with
the Clerk of the Provincial Court at least thirty days before the
begining of the Assizes on the Shore Where the Issue is to be
tried

[Proviso]

And be it likewise Enacted that the several Allowances herein
before mentioned to be made to the Judges and Jurors in Tobacco
Shall and may be paid by the Inhabitants of this Province in Current
money in the same Manner as other Publick and County Levies and
Charges are Payable,

[Allowance
to Judges,
&c. May be
paid in
Money]

Provided always and be it Enacted that the said Provincial Court
Shall and may meet according to the Adjournment thereof on the
twenty first day of July next and Shall and may then adjourn from
day to day and Proceed in all Business Civil and Criminal depending
in the said Court and all Officers Jurors and other Persons Who are

[The ad-
journ'd Pro-
vincial Court
to meet on
the 21^st of
July]

Obliged to Attend the said Adjourn'd Provincial Court Shall be then
Obliged to Attend the Same in like manner and under the Same

p. 608

Penalties as if this Act had not been made any thing herein contained
to the Contrary Notwithstanding
And be it further Enacted that all Actions now depending in the
Adjourned Provincial Court of What Nature Soever that Shall not

[Writs, &c.
returnable,
to be re-
turn'd in
October]