Th e Upper House. 451

Wednesday Morning March the 23^d 1725/6
This House met Again according to Adjournment
Present as yesterday Except Coll Richard Tilghman.

U. H. J.

Col^o Thomas Addison and Coll Richard Tilghman appointed
on a Comittee to treat with the Printer make report thereof as
follows viz.

To the Hon^ble the Upper House
Proposalls humbly Offered by William Parks

I^st He the said William Parks doth propose to print a
Body of such publick Provinciall Laws as hereafter shall be
made at each Sessions of Assembly for every Member of the
Assembly each Comissioner of the peace for the time being
and for each County Court of the province to be Delivered
fairly printed & Stitch'd at any one place where he shall be
directed your Excellency and Honours allowing him for each
Sessions of Assembly Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco
for each County every Session of Assembly.
2^d That as to the Journalls Vdtes Speeches and other
debates and Resolves that may happen in each Session of
Assembly the Uncertainty of their Number is so great that he
cant fix any Value for printing the whole but humbly Con-
ceives the fairest way for your Excellency and Honours as
well as for the proposer is that a certain price be limitted at
so much a Sheet then there can be no hardship on either side
3^dly That as to the body of the Laws hitherto made in this
Province they are so Voluminous, and the charge of Printing
them will be so great that I am Suspitious least the Burden
should be thought by the Country too great at once therefore
if your Excellency and Honours agree to the above pro-
posalls and shall use proper means to Establish me for a cer-
tain number of Years; that I may think myself settled
amongst you in regard to the Country which perhaps I may
live and dye in (if so Established here) I will undertake to

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Ease the publick of that Charge and Content my self with
running the Hazard of Subscriptions for it, Provided that
in all these Cases that care be taken by your Excellency and
Honours that I may have Exact Copys delivered to me in due
time

To the Hono^ble the Upper House

The Conferees haveing Considered the above proposalls do
make the following report therein viz.
I^st As to the first we Agree thereto and that he print the

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