350 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 6, 1725.

L. H. J.

p. 54

The Report of the Committee of Aggrievances was read
and Approved of and ordered to be entered as follows viz:

By the Comittee of Aggrievances
Octo^r the 19^th 1725
Your Committee humbly Offer it as an Aggrievance That
the Province should be put to so vast a Charge in the Repairs
of the Records which 'tis thought will Exceed One Thousand
Pounds whilst the particular Officers Enjoy the full benefitt
of those Offices great part of the perquisites whereof arise
from those very Records that are now so much worn by Con-
stant use, and particularly that the Secretary's Office from
which arises the greatest part of the Charge has for some
Years been of Above One Thousand pounds p Annum benefit
to the Officer. It is therefore humbly Offered whether it be
not just and Reasonable that such Offices as are of so Con-
siderable Advantage to the possessors should not bear their
own Charge, And the province be Reimburst by a Sequestra-
tion of such a proportion of the Annual Profit of Each Office
to the use of the Publick as may in a Reasonable time amount
to the whole Disbursements that thereby every Charge may
have its proper discharge, which is humbly Submitted to the
Consideration of the House
Sign'd p Order Sam^l Hepburne Cl Come.

And thereupon the following Message is prepared.

By the Lower House of Assembly

Octo^r the 27^th 1725
May it please Your Honours.
On Reading the Report of the Committee herewith sent,
this House Concurs therewith and desire that some Members
of Your House by Your Honours to be Appointed may be
joyn'd with John Beale Esq^r and Cap^t John Rider whom we
have appointed of our House in a Committee to view the
Severall Records that have been made in the time of the
severall Officers that have and now do Enjoy the Profits
thereof and Report in what Condition they now are.
Sign'd p Order Mich. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

Which was sent with the Report to the Upper House by
Cap^t Hooper and Cap^t Gordon. They Return and say they
delivered them
A Bill for Reviving the Act for Raising the three pence
p Hogshead was read the first and Second times by Especial