Acts. 247

No. 11 An Act for preventing trivial Suits in the Provincial Court.
Whereas, sundry Suits have been prosecuted in the Provincial
Court wherein a proper Remedy might have been obtained in the
County Courts with less Expence Vexation & Inconvenience.

Liber R. G.
1771
[Preamble.]

Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by & with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gov-
ernor & the Upper & Lower Houses of Assembly & the Authority of
the same That if any Action after the End of this Session of As-
sembly be brought in the Provincial Court or any Covenant or any

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Specialty for the Performance of Covenants or for the Performance
or Sufferance of any Act or Acts, Thing or Things whatsoever &
the Sum recovered or assessed & to which the Party recovering shall
be entitled shall not exceed twenty Pounds Sterling or twenty six
Pounds thirteen Shillings & four Pence Current Money or five
thousand Pounds of Tobacco in every such Case no Costs shall be
adjudged or awarded to the Party Plaintiff or Plaintiffs any Law
Statute Usage or Custom to the Contrary notwithstanding.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that if any
Action of Assault & Battery or Trover & Conversion or for Slander-
ous Words or any Action upon the Case shall after the End of this
present Session of Assembly be brought in the Provincial Court &
therein Damages shall not be recovered or assessed above twenty
Pounds Sterling or twenty six Pounds thirteen Shillings & four
Pence Current Money in every such Case no Costs shall be adjudged
or awarded to the Party Plaintiff or Plaintiffs & also if any of the
Actions aforesaid herein before mentioned shall be first brought in
any County Court & be thence removed to the Provincial Court at
the Suit or on Behalf of the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in Order for
Trial & therein the Sum recovered or assessed shall not exceed
twenty Pounds Sterling or twenty six Pounds thirteen Shillings &
four Pence Current Money or five thousand Pounds of Tobacco in
every such Case also no Costs shall be adjudged or awarded to the
Party Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, any Law Statute Usage or Custom
to the Contrary notwithstanding.

[Any Action
brought in
the Provin-
cial Court,
for any Sum
not exceed-
ing 20 1.
Sterling, &c.
no Costs to
be adjudged
to the Party,
&c. not for
Actions of
Assault and
Battery, &c.
Wherein
damages re-
covered do
not exceed
20 l. Ster-
ling, &c.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly November 1.^st
1771. Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
Jn.° Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

On Behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this be a Law.
Rob.^t Eden.

By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov.^r 1.^st 1771.
Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax appendant

No. 12 An Act confirming to Samuel Cookson of Baltimore County
sundry Lands therein mentioned.

Whereas Samuel Cookson of Baltimore County hath by his Peti-
tion set forth that on or about the nineteenth Day of September one
thousand seven hundred & sixty three he purchased of a certain

[A Private
Act.]