454 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 25-Nov. 10, 1709.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41.

And the Address relating to Ordinary Licenses Read and
approved of and Ord^d it be signed by the whole House
Bill reviving the Act for the Militia &^ta Read again with
Amendments & does pass
Col^{o
Whittington and Colo
Greenberry enters the House
and delivers Mr Speaker the following Message}

By the Council in Assembly Nov^r 9^th 1709

Gent. Believing your House to have many Things before
you of Consequence and little Time to spare this Session

drawing towards an End, and we being obliged to give our

Reasons to the Right Honble the Lords of Trade and Plant^a
for passing the Law requiring the Lord Baltimore's Agents to
&^ca and have assigned our Reasons and have communicate
them to you for your Approbation and if you think necessary
to add any further to them
Signed p Order W. Bladen Cl. Co.

Reasons for passing the Act requiring the Lord Baltimore's
Agents to certify into the Secretary's Office the Instructions
and Conditions of Plantation with the Fees by them demanded
to qualify themselves according to Law.
1 That for Want of a due Knowledge of the several Alter-
ations of the Conditions of Plantations made by the Lord
Proprietary from Time to Time his Lordship's Agents having
forborn for many Years to publish and record the said Condi-
tions which formerly were wont to be no Man is certain upon

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what Terms he holds any new Grants from him.
2 And for want of Due Notice of the Fees taken by his
Agents and under Officers we are liable to pay any Fees by
them demanded at their Pleasure as has been manifestly shewn
to the Assembly at the Time of passing the Law to the great
Aggrievance of her Majesty's Subjects here and obstructing
many Settlements of the Soil in Prejudice of her Majesty's
Revenue
3 Many Abuses being complained of to the Assembly done
by the several Deputy Surveyors under the Lord Baltimore
they thought it expedient to prevent the same for the future
that no one should act in that Station that would not qualifie
themselves as by the Law directed, the said Deputy Surveyors
being Officers acting between the Lord Propry and her
Majesty's Subjects who ought to administer Right between
his Ldp and the People from whom they receive their Wages
or Fees in measuring the Land they purchase from his Ldp
the Soil of this Province being not only granted to his Ldp's