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2^d Officers are obliged to Credit all Persons who apply to
them and have not the Liberty of Choosing who they will
Credit and where, as other Creditors have
3^d When Such fees are received in Small Parcells as many
of them must Necessarily be the officers had better let them
lye and perish (which they would in a Short time) Than be
at the expence of fetching them. And we further Observe
that the Sherriffs of the Severall Counties, who have the Col-
lecting of Officers ffees, if they should be Oblidged to take
the afores^d Comodities would be thereby disabled to make
hogsheads of Tobacco, and be obliged to receive great part
of their Tobacco in Parcells which would ruin them and very
much prejudice the Publick Credit and we Cannot think it
would be any Advantage to the poorer sort of people who
Seldom have more of those Comodities than will Supply their
families Occasions, but would rather give advantage to some
dishonest Persons to Divest themselves of the Species they are
sued for, and procure those Comodities purely to disappoint

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and perplex their Creditours. Besides the fees of the Sever-
all Offices are Already so reduced that they are Scarce Suffi-
cient to Support the Officers; and Wee cannot but think it
for the honour of our Country that they should be handsomly
Supported in their Severall Stations, For which reasons and
many more that might be Alledged we cannot consent that the
Bill should pass.
Signed p Order. Sam^l Skippon Cl. Up. H^o

Thereupon Ordered that the Comittee of Laws revive or
revise the Bill.
Ordered that the Comitte of Laws prepare a Bill or Clause
of a Bill for regulating prosecucons in Criminal Cases,
An Engrost Bill for the relief of Francis Gandevit and
John Read both of the City of Philadelphia was Read and
Assented [to] And was so endorsed and Sent to the Upp^r
House by M^r Edw^d Wright and M^r Kennard
They return and say they Delivered it.
A Bill to Confirm Lands devised for the use of the Church
was read the second Time and past, which was so Endorst
and Sent to the Upp^r House by M^r Tyler and three other
Members. They return and say they Delivered it.
A Bill to enable Hugh Mathews to make Sale of Dennis
Sullivan's Land was read the first and second times by Es-
pecial order and past which was so endorst and Sent to the
upp^r House by M^r Chairs and M^r Solomon Wright.
They return and say they Delivered it.

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