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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… agreed to appoint a Joint Committee to regulate all the Courts of the Island. [ Col. Entry Bk., Vol. XLVIII., pp. … the claim of Laurence and Francis Wessels in a court of law, and the Council decided that only such oyster-shells as … Samuel Barwick, a gentleman very well versed in the law and of good estate; James Coates, a very considerable …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Addenda
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… new commissions to certain officers referred to the law-officers, who decided that it was necessary. Orders to … of legal business and the time for holding the Provincial Courts. Proclamations proroguing the Assembly till the 30th … Helena was read and referred to the Receiver General and law officers. ( p. 82.) Several orders as to masters of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… recommending officers for appointment to the Admiralty Courts in the Colonies, and for the Secretary to request the … your list of persons to be employed in the Admiralty Courts of the Colonies, observes that it does not extend to … the fitness of the persons to be employed in the Admiralty Courts. The Commissioners will do their best to inform …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and Receiver of Patuxent District, cannot always attend to law affairs. I ask that 50 may be paid to him out of fines … the Statute of Limitation is likely to be pleaded in the Courts there, and have represented the injustice of this in a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… March, with the list of officers chosen from the Admiralty Courts, Mr. Penn desired that the same persons that serve … In my list of persons to be officers of the Admiralty Courts in America, which was presented to the Council of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… seized some land which he had recovered by action at law, because he refused to pay the large fees. 1 p. 841. … up three bills, to disable judges from practising in any Courts, to repeal an Act for a duty on shipping, and for … also returned with amendments. There is also a petitionary law for the introduction of foreign coins, and settling their …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the better regulation of the militia; (3) amendment of the law as to sheriffs; (4) the lessening of the expenses of the Commissioners of County Courts; (5) as to commissions of the peace; (6) to secure all … were very dilatory, and though people were fined by law and became sureties for one another, as also for …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Cecil County Court and to alter the winter County Courts. Message to the Council respecting ferries. Message … whether they would retract their opinions as contrary to law, whereupon they said that, though liable to err, they … sent, in compliance with a message from the Delegates. A law proposed against enticing people from the province, and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… by Colonel Herman from the Indians, and advised that a law be made to make such acceptance of presents illegal. … (4) the School, (5) the alterations of winter County Courts and (6) a certain method of holding Assemblies. List …