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in so necessary a Work, nor but that such of our Clergy as
conscientiously discharge their Duty which we hope are the
Greater number will Contribute their Endeavours to Curb
the misbehaviour of men of their own Order whose Actions
tend to Overthrow what by the most Sacred Obligations they
ought to Support
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

An Engrossed Bill by M^r Sherwood and one more thus
intituled An Act for Securing the rights and Inheritances of
sundry the Inhabitants within this Province against certain
Impositions by pretence of suspected deeds thus Subscribed
Viz.
October the 27^th 1734

Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly &
Signd p Order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

Which Bill being read is also Assented to by this House
The Report of the Committee of Aggrievances from the
Lower House by Col^o Mackal & M^r Crab Viz.

By the Committee of Aggrievances October 22^d 1724

On the many complaints referred this Session to the Ex-
amination of your [Committee] concerning the Abuses
offered by Sheriffs in their Office We humbly offer our Sence
of them in General that they seem to arise from an Uneasi-
ness betwixt the Sheriffs and the People often occasioned by
private dislikes of the Person of the Sheriff and often from the
Sheriffs discharging his duty according to Law tho' perhaps
without shewing them [such] Indulgences as he reasonably
might without Infringing it. The particular Complaints
that have been referred to us have Appeared to be no
otherwise Grounded but we find the Act made in 1723 En-
tituled An Act Reviving and Continuing an Act Entituled
An Act for Limitation of Officers fees and for Supplying
some defects therein encourages Several of the Sheriffs
to Charge fees for executing Levies and publick dues
which was in our humble opinion neither Legal nor in practice
before that Act was made And forasmuch as it seems to this
Committee that the small advantage of such Execution fee
may prevail on some minds that may be mean enough to
Suffer it to Execute persons without any other Cause than
that of encreasing their Gain by the fee and that the only end

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of giving the Sheriff the Power of Executing for Levies was
the better to enable him to collect and secure the publick dues
and to render his Office more Easy to him in this part with-