Acts. 315

prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Gov-
ernor and the upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same that all causes Pleas Process and Proceed-
ings now depending in or returnable to the said High Court of
Appeals now sitting and which cannot otherwise so long continue shall
be and are by Virtue of this Act Adjourned and continued untill the
third Tuesday in February next and shall then be in the same Plight
and Condition as they now are any Law Usage or Custom to the
contrary notwithstanding
And whereas by reason of the Present Sitting of the General
Assembly the Provincial Court has been Adjourned to the twentieth
Day of October instant.

Liber R. G.
1770
[Causes, &c.
in the Court
of Appeals,
how long
continued.]

Be it Enacted that the said Provincial Court shall be and is hereby
further adjourned to the first Monday in April next and that all
causes Pleas Process and Proceedings now depending in the said
Court shall upon such further Adjournment be in the same Plight
and Condition as they would be on the said twentieth Day of Oct-
ober instant.

[Provincial
Court Ad-
journed to
1^st Monday
in April.]

And be it further enacted that all causes Pleas Process and pro-
ceedings now depending in the said Provincial Court and which
cannot by virtue of An Act Entituled an Act to Limit the Continu-
ance of Actions in Several Courts within this Province and ascertain-
ing the manner of taking the Evidence of Seafaring Men and for
granting Appeals from the Chancery Court to the Governor and
Council be continued to April Provincial Court next shall and may
at the Discretion of the Justices of the said Provincial Court be
Continued from the said first Monday in April next until the April
Provincial Court next and shall upon such Continuance be in the
same Plight and Condition as they would be on the said first Mon-
day of April next any Law Usage or Custom to the Contrary Not-
withstanding

[All Causes,
&c. may, at
the Discre-
tion of the
Justices, be
further con-
tinued to the
April Pro-
vincial
Court.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly October 18.^th
1770. Read and Assented
to
Signed by Order
Jn^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

On behalf of the right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Rob.^t Eden

By the Upper House of p. 54
Assembly 18.^th October
1770 Read and Assented
to
Signed by Order
U. Scott Cl Up. Ho.

the great seal in

wax appendant

N.^o 6 An Act to Invest John Clayton with an exclusive Privilege and
Benefit of making and selling a Machine for threshing of Wheat
on a Model by him invented

Whereas John Clayton by his Humble Petition to this General
Assembly has set forth That he could construct from his own In-
vention and sell at a reasonable Price a Machine that with the As-
sistance of a man and Horse would Thresh Fifty Bushels of wheat

[A Private
Act.]