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Who make Choice of Coll^o Mathew Tilghman Ward
Chairman and John Gibson Clerk, And proceed to Regulate
the Comissarys' fees, Secretary's fees, Sherriffs fees, Cryer
of the Provinciall Court, Clerk of the Councill Clerk of the
High Court of Appeales, Clerk of the County Court, Cryer
of the County Court, and Examiner Generall fees, and leave
the Chancellor's Surveyor's Collector, Navall Officer, Deputy
Comissary, and the Coroners fees on the Last Regulation
Concieving they will not admitt of any Deduction.
And we the Conferrees afores^d by Vertue of the power to
us given have Seriously and Deliberately weighed and Con-
sidered the Severall Profits and Advantages arising from
the fees of the Severall other Officers afores^d and made a Com-
putation of the sum Totall of the Severall Lists of Fees and
humbly Concieve [the severall Officers above mentioned will
bear such regulations and deductions as are by us made which
may appear by the Table of Fees to this Report affixt and we
humbly conceive] it necessary to bring in a Bill to Inforce
the Regulation now made, and we also Report to Your
Honours that we have Inspected the Severall fees allowed
by Law to practitioners of the Law, and tho we do not appre-
hend the said fees to be Exorbitant, Yet we Esteem it to be
Absolutely Necessary to tie down the Practitioners aforesaid
to the due observance of taking no other fees, To which pur-
pose we have thought fitt to devise Certain Oaths to be taken
by the severall practitioners, plaintiff and Defendant in Every
Action, and with this Transmitted Copies thereof for your
Honours perusall as Concieving this to be the Most Effectual
Method to prevent the Hardships Complained of, and further
we humbly make known to Your Honours that on Due Inspec-
tion and Consideration of the Office of Surveyor Generall,
The whole Business being transacted by the Deputies thereof,
we deem the said Office Useless, and think Necessary That

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an Address be presented to his Honour the Governour on that
head, and further we humbly propose that Attorneys' fees
be Ascertained by Law for their Services in pleading before
the Judge for Land Affairs and the Upper and Lower Houses
of Assembly, All which we humbly Submitt to your Honours
Wisdom and Justice.
Signed p Order John Gibson Cl. Conferrees.

And further Report that we think it necessary that for any
Estate not Exceeding fifty Pounds, the Comissarys Generall
take but half fees to be ascertained by Law, and that the Dep^ty
Com^ry of the Respective Counties have full power (when
there is no Dispute) to Settle and pass all accounts whatso-

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