442 Assembly Proceedings, March 15-23, 1725/6.

U. H. J.

joyn with us in addressing his Honour the Governour for the
redress of the Aggrievance Complained of.
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo Ho.

To which Message the following Answer was prepared

By the Upper House of Assembly March the 18. 1725/6
Gentlemen.
In Answer to your message by M^r Benj. Mackall and M^r
Walter Smith and in respect to the report therewith sent
from the Committee of Aggrierances relateing to the Com-
plaints Exhibited by sundry of the good people of this prov-
ince against the late Management of the Secretarys and
Comissarys Offices we take leave to Observe that the Officers
of those respective Offices haveing no Law to regulate their
ffees by, may not be thought by their late Demands so much
to have offended the Inhabitants of this province if it be
Considered how great a disparity and difference there is in
respect to the real Value of the ffees paid to the said Officers
when they are and are not upon Execution, and tho we Con-
ceive the Insisting on money ffees to be a hardship on his
Lordships Tenants as well as its being in the Option of the
Officers to Demand what fees they please yet we are of
Opinion that the best Remedy to prevent the Complaint for
the future will be to revive the late law for regulating
Officers ffees untill next Sessions of Assembly at which time
there will be more leisure to Consider this Affair w^th a
Clause to be added that all Obligacons taken in those Offices
for such ffees as have accrued since the Expiracon of the

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late Law to be void and those fees to be regulated and paid
according to that Law
Signed p Order Geo. Plater Cl. Up Ho

Sent by John Rousby Esq^r who says he Delivered it
A Message from the Lower House by M^r King and M^r
Mackall viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly March the 18. 1725/6
May it please Your Honours
We cannot come into the measures you propose by Your
Message this day by John Rousby Esq^r as to the reviveing
the late Law for regulateing Officers ffees but are willing if
your Honours think fit to Concur with us therein to the pass-
ing a Bill according to the regulation proposed last Sessions
by the Committee of both Houses and to the Adding a Clause