296 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 5-Oct. 3, 1704.

Lib. L. L.

No. 64.

P. 92

Chancellour and the other part of the said Indentures you are
to keep for your Justification Witness our trusty and well
beloved John Seymour Esq. our Capt. Generall and Chief Gov-
ernour of this our Province at Annapolis &c.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that
two Citizens to serve in the said Assembly for the City of
Saint Marys shall be nominated Elected Chosen and appointed
by the Mayor Recorder Alldermen and Comon Councill as
heretofore hath been usuall
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that
the aforesaid four Delegates to be Elected in the respective
County within this Province and the two Citizens of the City
of Saint Marys be and are hereby bound and oblig'd to attend
the time and place of the Meeting of such Assembly without
any further Writt or Sumons to be to them sent under the
Penalty of Such ffines as shall be by the house of Assembly
imposed upon them unless upon Sufficient Excuse to be
admitted by the said house of Assembly their absence be dis-
pens'd withall Any Law Statute Usage or Custom to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
And be it also further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
that any Sheriff that shall refuse and neglect to make return
of the delegates so Elected by Indenture as aforesaid before
the day of Sitting of such Assembly or that shall make any
undue or illegall returns of such elections shall for every fault
be find two hundred pounds Sterl the one half to her Majesty
her heires and Successors for the Support of Government and
the other half to the Informer or them that shall sue for the
same to be recovered in any Court of Record in this Province
wherein no Essoyn Protection or wager of Law to be allowed.
Provided Nevertheless that this Act or anything herein con-
tain'd shall not extend to be Construed to exclude any County
or Countys City or Citys Burrough or Burroughs hereafter by
her Majesty her heires or Successors to be erected and made
within this Province from the liberty of such Election of Dele-

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gates and Representatives as is before express'd But that such
Writt as aforesaid shall upon calling every Generall Assembly
for this Province for the future issue to the Sheriff of every
such County when the same shall be erected and made into a
County as aforesaid and to the Mayor Recorder and Alderman
of every such City or Burrough Comanding such Sheriff or
Mayor recorder and Aldermen to Cause four ffreemen of the
said County and two freemen of the said City or burrough
Qualifyed as in the said Writt is expressed to serve as Dele-
gates and Representatives of the same County City or Bur-
rough in the Generall Assembly then next ensuing Which said
ffour Delegates for every such County and two for the City