290 Assembly Proceediitgs, Nov. 29-Dec. 15, 1708.

L. H. J.

certifying that he was employed as one of the Guards, which
was referred to the Committee of Accounts for Allowance
Levin Denwoods Petition praying Liberty to export Furs
without paying the Duties in the Lieu of Furs shipped in the
Panther Tho^s [Cleeves] Commander who foundered at Sea
being read and debated.
Put to the Question whether he have Liberty or not?
Carryed by Majority of Votes, in the Negative

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The Petition of Thomas Ottaway brought from the Council
by Samuel Young Esq^r Read praying Allowance for the Loss
of his Thumb being one of the Guards Ordered the Committee
of Accounts allow him two thousand Pounds of Tobacco this
Levy.
Samuel Young Esq^r from the Council enters the House and
deliver M^r Speaker Samuel Mecko's Petition setting forth he
was one of the Guard and lost his Eye-Sight by Attendance
in the Night
Ordered That the Committee of Accounts allow him two
thousand Pounds of Tobacco this Levy.
Major John Freeman's Petition Read and Rejected
Ordered That Summons issue for Daniel Sherwood Sheriff
of Talbot County to attend this House next Session of Assem-
bly to answer the Complaint of the Inhabitants of the said
County touching his irregular Proceedings for the Election of
the present Delegates for the said County
The Committee of Grievances enter the House and report
as followeth

By the Committee of Grievances December 6^th 1708

It is humbly offered as an Aggrievance to this Committee
that whereas it is left to the Discretion of the several Courts
within this Province to regulate the several Attorneys Fees
practicing therein as to them seems meet which is thought of
ill Consequence to the Suitors of the said Courts therefore it
is humbly offered by this Committee as an Aggrievance, to
the Honourable House of Delegates that the same Attorneys
Fees may be regulated by an Act of Assembly as all other
Officers Fees are as to the Honble House shall seem meet.
Signed p Order John Beale Clk.

Ordered the Committee of Laws prepare a Bill to regulate
Attorney's Fees.
The said Committee also report as follows.