Proceedings And Acts Of The General Assembly Of Maryland 1711 1714

Author : William Hand Browne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666760951
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Archives of Maryland written by William Hand Browne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Archives of Maryland: Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, March, 1707-November, 1710 The sessions of 1707 and 1708 were distinguished by no unusual events, and harmony prevailed between the different branches of the Government. Attendance on the Provincial Court being inconvenient to those who lived far from Annapolis, and especially to the people of the Eastern Shore, the Governor and Council recommended a system of itinerant judges to go on the Western and Eastern circuits, and hold assizes twice a year. To this plan the Lower House would not agree, so the Governor appointed four such judges by virtue of the royal prerogative, and the Queen confirmed the appointments. As the people seemed slow in erecting towns and ports, for which such ample provision had been made in the Act of 1706, the Governor feared that that Act was not sufficiently coercive, and again urged the Assembly to bestir themselves in the matter. At first sight it seems absurd to try to make ports by main force, unless one could also create the traffic to justify them; but there was a special reason in this case. Vessels had to be entered and cleared by the royal collectors, and thus the planters who could have landed and shipped their goods almost at their doors, were put to the trouble and risk of conveying them to or from Annapolis, St. Mary's, Oxford, or Chestertown. To remedy this, an Act was passed creating all the towns, rivers and landings in the several Bay counties, members of the ports of their districts. The proceedings in the case of Richard Clarke, attainted for various heinous acts or designs, such as counterfeiting, piracy, and blowing up the port of Annapolis, Show symptoms of a degree of alarm which at present seems rather excessive. But that business can be better studied in the Council Journals. In the Session of Sept - Oct. 1708, no Acts were passed, the Lower House having shown so froward a temper that the Governor cut short the session by dissolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.