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give most Money or Tobacco for them; whereby several Per-
sons have been commissionated that are very uncapable and
not qualified and of too mean Capacity and Estates to execute
and perform their Duty and Office and Inhabitants thereby
much aggrieved and oppressed and very slender Securities
given for performing their Offices whereby great Losses have
and are likely to happen to her Majesty's Subjects within this
Province. It is also Reported to and Resolved by this House as
an Aggrievance That the Provincial Court hath Jurisdiction
over so small Sums whereby all Actions are almost brought
there where the Charge very often exceeds the Debt or De-
mand and is of great Trouble Charge and Fatigue to the
Suitors both Pllff. and Deft and many Times occasions the
Plaintiff to lose both his Debt & Cost and perpetual Imprison-
ment of the Defendant's Body or Ruin of his whole Estate
All which said six last Aggrievances this House humbly desire
her Majesty's Honble Council to join with them in redressing
and that the Honble Council will join some of their Board with
some of the Members of this House in a Conference to con-
sider of the Ways and Means to redress the same and of the
Method and Manner of settling the Courts of Judicature and
their Jurisdictions with the Manner of their Proceedings and
the Qualifications of their Officers Signed p Order
W Taylard Cl. Ho. Del.
Which being read and approved of was sent up to the
Honble Council p Colo
Walter Smith, Mr John Whittington
Mr Robert Tyler Mr Daniel Mariartee, Mr Thomas Frisby and
Mr Thomas Robins. They return and say they delivered their
Meesage.
The Petition of Richard Llewellin Read and rejected.
Colo
Coursey and Colo
Whittington enter the House and
deliver Mr Speaker the following Message Viz.
By the Council in Assembly November 2nd 1709.
The Right Honble the Lords of Trade and Plantations hav-
ing recd the Lord Baltimore's Objections to the Act requiring
his Agents to certify into the Secretary's Office the Instructions
and Conditions of Plantations with the Fees for them demanded
and obliging his Lordship's Deputy Surveyors to qualify
themselves according to Law have desired to be informed of
the Reasons for passing the said Act. And what other Ob-
servations may be necessary thereupon We desire therefore
you will take the same into Consideration and make such
Observations thereon for their Lordship's better Satisfaction
as you shall think fit
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Co.
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