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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1706. 205
said Bladen an Attorney retayned against him into the Pos- Lib. C. B. session of all his ffees & pquisites of Office It is only to make a coulourable pretence of some hardship done to Sr Thomas when indeede there is not any, as may appear by the Minutes in Councill of the 7th of December 1704. When the Councill being inform'd of the Death of Coll William Dent whome p. 53 Sr Thomas Laurence had left his attorney here, did inquire Who tooke Care of Sr Thomas's concerns. And being made Sencible that Sr Thomas Laurence had made over and assigned all the ffees Perquisites and Proffits of his Secre tarys Office to William Bladen for the Satisfaction & payment of two hundred & fifty pounds Ster & 15293 ls Tobacco did thinke the Said William Bladen the Properest Person to take Care of such ffees, And whereas it was absolutely Necessary that the said Sr Thomas Laurence's Clarks who mannage the Office and the Deputy Secretary should be paid their respec tive Sallarys, It was Ordered that the Said Bladen should take Care and see them paid out of Sr Thomas's ffees Which wee hope all Reasonable men will aprove of without observing the least Shadow of Disrespect to Sr Thomas Laurence therein not being in the least conscious to our Selves thereof. Whereas Sr Thomas Laurence in his Letter to his Excel lency seems to retorte that his Exncy had wrote him the Bill imposing fynes for Ordinary Lycences was not a Possitive Law but only Petitionary which his Said Excellency had so pro posed on purpose out of a true reguarde to the said Sr Thomas's Interest, Yet he finds the Said Law to be Positive as well as the Rest, and for want of his Said Excellencys p. 54 Reasons sent with the Law he is like to be Stript of two years Profitt of that Branch of his Office Wee very well remember how Tender his Excellency was of Sr Thomas Lawrence her Majestys Secretarys Interest therein tho it was Strongly asserted that the Said Secretary had no right thereto and are assured that his Said Excellency did Propose the Said Law should be Petitionary to the end to give Sr Thomas a better handle to make his Pretentions Appear before her most Sacred Majesty in Councill, and in Case his Excellency had not then agree to the Bill as Proposed yett Sr Thomas Could not reap any benefitt for that the former Act of As sembly for levying those fines having been a temporary Law & Expired there there was no power to receive those Lycences Vested in any Person Wherefore this Article is also a very unjust & groundless Charge against his Said Excellency the Governour who is thus unhandsomely rewarded for his ffavour and ffriendship to Sr Thomas. Sr Thomas Laurences Complaint that the Searches in the Land Office were cut off to one Moyety & other ffees abridged
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