The Committee appointed to take into consideration the papers purporting an Impeachment of the Justices of the Court of Common pleas for the County of Rockingham beg leave to report as their Opinion that the said Justices are not Impeachable for Maladministration as their conduct is justified by the constitution of this State Submitted by John Sparhawk for the Committee which report being read and considered motion was made for receiving and accepting the Same, on which motion the *Yeas and nays were required and are as follows (viz) * Mr Bradley Mr Dutton Nays. Mr Emerson Nays. Nays. Mr Powers Mr Bartlett Mr Copland Mr Parker Mr Copp Mr Johnson Mr Duncan Mr Job Dow Mr Barnard Mr Winch 13-314 Mr Allen Mr Holmes Mr Edmd Freeman 35 Yeas-21 Nays-so it was received and Accepted. Voted that Mr Pickering, Mr Bartlett & Mr Prentice with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to draught a Bill for repealing an Act of this State intitled an Act for the recovery of Small debts in an expeditious way & manner passed Nov 9th 1785Sent up by Mr Gains Voted that the Members of the Honb' Senate and House of Representatives and their Officers be allowed four pence pr mile for travel to and from their Homes-That the Members of the Honb' Senate be allowed Six shillings day each- The Secretary and Clerk of the House nine shillings Day each and the Assistant Clerk one Shilling and Six pence Day over and above his pay as a Member and that the Secretary and Clerk make up the Respective Rolls accordingly and that the President give order that the Same be paid out of the Treasury-That the Members of the House be allowed six shillings Day each for their at tendance and that the Clerk make up a Roll accordingly and that the President give order on the Treasurer for paying the Same by discount out of the Taxes of the Towns or Districts they respectively represent and that the Clerk be allowed one day for making up the Rolls — Sent up by Mr Holmes [The following protest was given in against the preceding vote: We protest against this Courts, assessing their wages and ordering the same to be collected and paid into the Treasury in a manner we conceive the constitution doth not warrant. * 13-315 George Gains, Nathaniel Peabody, John Pickering, Timothy Taylor, * Voted that when the business of this Session is finished that the President with advice of Council be desired to adjourn the General Court to the first Wednesday in Jany next then to meet at Charlestown Sent up by Mr Holmes Adjourned to 8 o'Clock to morrow morning. THURSDAY JUNE 28th, 1787. The House met according to adjournment. An Act to quiet all bona fide purchasers of Lands between a line crossing over lands upon a straight course from the NorthEast extremity of the east line of Masons Patent being sixty miles from the Sea on a straight line, and running to the extremity of the Western side line of said Patent at Sixty miles distance from the sea on a straight line, and the curve line (so called) claimed by the persons calling themselves the Masonian Proprietors at the head line of Said patent- was read a third time & passed to be enacted Sent up by Mr Page & Mr Copland Upon the passing of which Bill a protest was given in, and was in the following words - We the Subscribers beg leave to enter our protest against the passing the Bill, entitled an Act to quiet all bona fide purchasers of Lands between a line crossing over Lands upon a straight course from the North extremity of the East line of Masons Patent being sixty miles from the Sea on a straight line and running to the extremity of the Western side line of said Patent &c. for the following reasons (viz1) 1st Because the first paragraph in the Bill gives no Security to any Grantees therein mentioned but seems to be calculated to quiet fears which the Bill has a direct tendency to excite, while many other grantees of Lands within said Lines entitled to the benefit of the bill were any intended were entirely omitted. 24 Because the second paragraph of said Bill were it Enacted would be a great encouragement to trespassers and intruders as it gives them a preference to the honest peaceable Subjects of the state- while it would indemnify them against all damages which otherwise might be recovered of them for trespassing on private property and because the said Second paragraph takes it for granted that the lands therein mentioned belong to the State and is in effect and consequence a preadjudica• 13-316 tion of the title to the Same in favour of the State, while the State sits Sole judge and arbiter in its own cause. * 3d We protest against the third paragraph as it's obvious tendency must be, to deprive the Subject of many forcible arguments in Support of his claim, alters the real present circumstances of his cause, much to his prejudice, while it creates a prepossession in favour of the State and looks like preparing a jury for the decision of the cause—in accord the Subscribers protest against the Bill in gross, the genius and tendency of which they conceive derogatory to the Legislature and Subversive of the Constitutional rights of the Subject Charles Barrett Francis Worster Thos Crawford George Gains An Act for altering the time of holding the Superior Court in the County of Cheshire, and for altering the time and place for holding the Superior Court in the County of Grafton was read a third time and passed to be Enacted Sent up by Mr Simpson & Mr Johnson The Committee to consider of the propriety of receiving Some continental Bills presented to the General Court by Benjamin Cummings Constable of Cornish agreable to his deposition &c Reported that the Treasurer be directed to receive the Same amounting to Seven hundred and eighty three pounds twelve Shillings and pay or account with the said Benjamin Cummings agreable to the scale of Depreciation at the rate of Seventy five for one and that the same be paid in Certificates of this State for interest on public Securities - Signed Ebenz" Smith for the Committee - which report being read and considered voted that it be received and accepted Sent up by Mr Chase The Committee on the Petition of Peterborough Slip reported as their Opinion that the Petitioners have a day of hearing thereon before the General Court the second Tuesday of their * 13-317 * next Session, whereupon voted that said Petitioners be heard on said day and that in the mean time the Petitioners cause that the Substance of the Petition and order of Court be published three weeks Successively in one of the New Hampshire News papers that any person or persons may then appear, and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted Sent up by Mr Chase Voted that the President with advice of Council be requested Seasonably to issue a proclamation appointing that Thursday the twenty ninth day of November next be observed as a day of public thanksgiving throughout this State Sent up by Mr Chase On motion made that a vote or Resolve now pass giving liberty to insert advertisements respecting proprietary meetings and Taxes on the lands of nonresident proprietors in any one of the New Hampshire News papers, and not to be confined to any one printer, on which motion the yeas and nays being called were as follows (viz) 33 Yeas-24 Nays So it passed in the Affirmative and leave is granted to bring in a Resolve accordingly The vote respecting pay of the General Court came down from the Honb' Senate for the following amendment "That the Treasurer add the wages of the Representatives to the next Specie Tax of the Respective Towns and Districts"— which amendment was read and concurred Sent up by Mr Odlin *Voted that the Account of Daniel Rogers amounting to Three pounds five shillings be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President 13-318 Sent up by Mr Blanchard Voted that the Account of Caleb Buswell amounting to five pounds be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President Sent up by Mr Blanchard Voted that the Account of Edward S Livermore Esq' amounting to Thirty six shillings be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the PresidentSent up by Mr Blanchard Voted that the Account of Majr William Duncan amounting to Three pounds twelve shillings be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President - Sent up by Mr Gains Voted that Mr Jonathan Wilkins have and receive out of the Treasury Forty shillings for his Service as Chaplain to the General Court the present Session, and that the President give order. accordingly Sent up by Mr Gains An Act to repeal an Act passed the ninth day of November Ann Dom 1785 entitled an Act for the recovery of Small debts in an expeditious way and manner, was read a third time & motion was made that it pass to be Enacted-The yeas and Nays were then called for and were as follows (viz) 32 Yeas 18 Nays so it passed to be Enacted * Sent up by Mr Gains & Mr Odlin Met accordingly Voted that Mr Prentice, Mr Simpson & Mr Odlin be a Committee to wait on Mr John Stevens and present him with the |