Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1733. 27

held, which Act limits the Number of Courts in the Year to
four, and gives a Power to any two Justices, One being of the
Quorum when and as often as Need shall require, to adjourn
the said County Courts, Process and Proceedings therein de-
pending, to such short Time as they should see convenient,
which only impowers the Justices to adjourn, in Order to finish
Business actually depending, and not for the Return of any
Original Writts: Notwithstanding which the Justices of Tal-
bot County Court, have assumed a Power of appointing and
holding a fifth Court, in the said County, to which Original
Writts are made returnable, expressly contrary to the said
Act of Assembly; which Practice this House conceives to be a
dangerous Encroachment on the Legislative Authority, Your
Lordships Prerogative, an Aggrievance to the People, and that
Our Duty to your Lordship and the People We represent,
obliges Us to apply to Your Lordship, and to pray that You
will be pleased to give such directions, as to Your Lordship
in your Wisdom shall seem convenient, to put a Stop to such
unwarrantable Proceedings
Signed by Order of the House
Jn^o Mackall Speaker

The Justices of Talbot County appearing this Day according
to the Summons issued by Order of the Right Honourable the
Lord Proprietary; They are by the Lord Proprietary made ac-
quainted with the Contents of the above Address; and desired
(if such has been the Practice in the said County of Talbot)
They desist therefrom for the future

Ordered that the following Act of Assembly Entituled an
Act for Settlement of an Annual Revenue upon Her Majestys
Governor within this Province for the Time being; made at a
Session of Assembly begun and held at the Town and Port
of Annapolis in Ann Arundel County the fifth Day of Septem-
ber in the third year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady
Ann by the Grace of God of England, Scotland France and
Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith &c and in the year of
Our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and four be recorded
in the Council Book

An Act fur Settlement, of an Annual Revenue upon Her

Majestys Governor within this Province for the Time being

Whereas, by an Act of Assembly formerly made, intituled,
An Act for providing a Support for the Lord Proprietary of
this Province; and likewise a Supply for defraying the Publick
Charge of the Government, it was, by the said Act, published

Lib. M.
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