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<p n="604">By adjornment on Wednesday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55602_date82">twenty Sixth<lb></lb>
day of February 1745</rs>
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<p n="605"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order to oblige Suitors<lb></lb>
of the Court to appear<lb></lb>
early in a Morning for<lb></lb>
trial of Traverses.}</note>
Whereas the Tryals of Traverses upon Indictments<lb></lb>
depending in this Court have been much delayed by reason<lb></lb>
that the Defendants and also the Prosecutors of Such<lb></lb>
Indictments do not appear at the first Sitting of the Court<lb></lb>
in order to have such Indictments tryed for want of<lb></lb>
whose Appearance the Court cannot proceed to the tryal<lb></lb>
of the Said indictments, which is a great hindrance to the<lb></lb>
dispatching the Business of the Sessions, For the<lb></lb>
Prevention of Such Inconveniences for the future<lb></lb>
It is Ordered that if the Defendants do not appear<lb></lb>
at the first sitting of the Court to try their Traverses<lb></lb>
upon such Indictments that their Recognizances Shall<lb></lb>
be estreated and that the Same Shall not be respited<lb></lb>
without payment of Costs to the Prosecutor, and in Case<lb></lb>
the Prosecutors Shall not appear at the first sitting of<lb></lb>
the Court in order to give Evidence upon such Indictments,<lb></lb>
that then the Defendants upon proving Notice of Tryal<lb></lb>
may be acquitted of the Offences therein charged against<lb></lb>
them.</p>
<p n="606">By adjornment on Thursday 27th. day of February 1745.</p>
<p n="607"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for electing &<lb></lb>
continuing <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n607-1">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ669">Esqr</rs>
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. Chariman of the<lb></lb>
Court.}</note>
It is Ordered that the Thanks of this Court be and they are<lb></lb>
hereby given unto <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n607-2">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ670">Esqr</rs>
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. Chairman of this<lb></lb>
Court for his good and landable Services done to this County of<lb></lb>
Middx in the Publick Administration of Justices, And this<lb></lb>
Court doth elect and Continue the said Mr. Lane to be<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ671">Chairman</rs>
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of the General Quarter and General Sessions of<lb></lb>
the Peace to be holden for the said County between Lady day<lb></lb>
1746 and Michas then next ensuing.</p>
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