The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

292 COMMONS JOURNAL, JANUARY 15, 1759–FEBRUARY 16, 1759Bill be ordered to be brought in for erecting Courts in such Parts of the Provinceas shall be thought fit, for trying and Determining all Causes more inValue than Twenty Pounds and not exceeding Seventy Pounds Currency ina Summary Manner, and that these Courts be held by the Justices of thePeace in Each District as the Courts of Quarter Session are in England.The last Paragraph of the Petition prays for a Publication of the Lawsof this Province, which the Committee conceive is already under Considerationof the House.Resolved that this House will on Friday Morning next take the said Reportinto Consideration.Mr. Cantey (according to Order) Reported from the Committee towhom the Petition of the Commissioners of the Parish of St. Mark’s was referred,that they had examined the matter of the said Petition, and had directedhim to report the Same, as it appeared to them, to the House, andhe read the Report in his place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk’sTable where the same was read, and is as follows, Vizt.That your Committee have, pursuant to the Order of the House, Consideredthe said Petition, and do recommend that the Sum of Seven hundredPounds be given to the said Parish for the Use set forth in the saidPetition.Ordered That the said Report do lye upon the Table.And then the House adjourned till To Morrow Morning Ten of theClock.Thursday the 1st Day of February 1759.The Journal of yesterday’s Proceedings was read.The House being informed that a Person named Joseph Howard hathperformed several Extraordinary Cures in this Province & that he is willingto discover the Method by which those Cures were performed, for the Benefitof the Public, providing a suitable Reward is given him for so doing.Ordered that a Committee be appointed to enquire into the Cures thathave been made by Joseph Howard on the Inhabitants of this Province,whether the said Howard will make his Secret known to the Public, and toConsider whether it will be for the Advantage of the Province, to make hima Public Gratuity, and that they report the same, as it shall appear to them,to the House.And it is referred to Mr. Mazyck, Captain Taylor, Mr. Wright, Mr.Broughton, Mr. Moultrie, Mr. Stobo, Mr. Coachman, Mr. Postell, Mr. DanielCrawford, Collonel Richardson, Mr. Freer.Ordered that the said Committee do sit this Afternoon.