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Word "Same," in the fourth Line of the fourth Page insert as
follows — "Whereas by an Act entituled, An Act for rectifying
the ill Practices of Attornies of this Province, and ascertaining Fees
to the Attorney General Clerk of Indictments, Attornies, and Practi-
tioners of the Law in the Courts of this Province, and for levying
the same by way of Execution, it is amongst other things especially
enacted, that if any Attorney or person Practising the Law, in any
of the Courts of this province, do presume to ask, receive, take, or
demand any greater, or larger Fee, than by the said Act appointed,
and be thereof legally Convicted, he shall be incapable to Practise
the Law in any Court of this Province, for the future, And,
Whereas it would be of very little Avail towards the Ease of Suitors
to regulate and limit the Fees of Lawyers, unless they be strictly
held, not to ask, receive, take or demand any Fees beyond such Regu-
lation and Limitation, Be it therefore enacted by the Authority afore-
said, that no Attorney or Lawyer shall Plead the Cause of any
Suitor, or appear in, or undertake any Suit or Cause, in any Court of
this Province, after the end of this present Session of Assembly,
unless such Attorney or Lawyer, in each Court in which he shall
Practice, at the first Sitting thereof, at which such Attorney or
Lawyer shall Appear and undertake or be concerned in any Suit or
Cause, take and Subscribe in Open Court, the Oath following to
wit. I A. B. do Solemnly Promise and Swear that I will not during
the Continuance of the Act intituled An Act to Ease the Inhabitants
of this Province in the Payment of Attornies Fees, in any manner,
or of any person, directly or indirectly ask, receive, take, or demand,
in Money, or Tobacco, or any other Matter, or Thing, any greater
or larger Satisfaction, Reward, Gratuity, or Fees than by the said
Act Appointed, So help me God. And the Judges and Justices, in
and of the several Courts of this Province, are required and en-
joined not to permit or suffer any Attorney or Lawyer to practice
in their respective Courts unless such Attorney or Lawyer shall
first take and Subscribe in Open Court the Oath aforesaid — Provided
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always that this Act, or anything therein contained, shall not extend
to hinder any Attorney, or Lawyer, from finishing and bringing to a
Determination the Suits or Causes now depending, and in which
they have been really and actually employed by any party or parties
interested therein" — So Endorsed and Sent to the Lower House
by William Fitzhugh Esquire.
Read the second time, by an especial Order in this House, the Bill
entituled an Act to revive and continue part of an Act entituled
An Act for Amending the Staple of Tobacco, for preventing Frauds
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