466 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5.



          Liber M M At which day that is to Say the Sixteenth day of October in the
                  43th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Dom One thou
                  sand six hundred Seventy foure came aforesaid Thomas Gibson by
                  his Attorny aforesaid and the said James Neale and Anna his wife
                  by their Attorny aforesaid but because it appeared to the Court here
                  That this action of ejectment was Cothenced by the said Thomas
                  Gibson as Lessee to the said William Russell against Arthur Turner
                  casuall Ejector and James Neale & Anna his wife daughter & heire
                  of Benjamin Gill deceased the parties concerned being by order of
              p. 458 Court named defts instead of the casuall Ejector to try the title to a
                  parcell of Land and certaine houses thereon built now in the Tenure
                  of the said James Neale and Anna his wife or John Lovett or their
                  assignes and being now in dispute between the said William Rus
                  sell and James Neale & Anna his wife And the the Court finding it
                  necessary that the due lines & bounds of both persons lands be Sur
                  veyed by a skillful person according to the Originall Surveys & pat-
                  tents thereupon granted to Christopher Russell ifather of the said
                  William Russell and Benjamin Gill ffather of the said Anna & that
                  a faire plott & Certificate thereof be returned to the Court It is by
                  the Court this day Ordered That the Honble Baker Brooke Esq
                  Surveyr Genll or his Deputy Surveyr for the Said County of Charles
                  County be especially appointed by this Court & are hereby appointed
                  impowered & comanded to lay Out the lands of the said Wm Russell
                  & the Land of the said James Neale & Anna his wife and to runn
                  Out the true lines & Sett Out their meets & bounds according to their
                  respective pattents aforesaid to the Said Christopher Russell & Ben
                  jamin Gill in the presence of the Sheriff of Charles County who is
                  hereby Comanded and impowered to Summon & impannell a jury
                  of twelve legall and honest men of his Bailiwick of the neighbour
                  hood to the said lands upon the said lands and to examine wittnesses
                  upon Oath that the truth of the matter may be fully discovered & the
                  Surveyr Genll or his Deputy aforesaid is hereby Ordered to runn
                  his lines according to the evidence then given and the directions of
                  the jury & to returne a Certificate of his proceedings herein & a faire
                  plott distinctly drawne of the said Lands in question together with
                  the evidence that was sworne to the next Provinciall Court to be held
                  at the Citty of St Maries the eighth day of December next attested
                  under the hand & Seale of the said Surveyr Genll or his Deputy as
                  aforesaid as of the said Sheriff & the jurors that so his Lopps jus
                  tices here being fully informed of the truth of the premisses may
                  doe herein as to justice shall appurteine
                   In Obedience whereunto the Said Sheriff Benjamin Rozer Gent
                  together with John Gooch George Credwell Richard Harrison Robert
                  Rowlands Walter Davis Joseph Bullett John iferson Joseph Cooper
                  John Cassock Thomas Gibson Arthur Turner & Thomas Helgair
                  Sworne jurors to enquire into the meets and bounds of the Land in