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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 Regu-
late their ffees by may not be thought by their Late Demands
so much to have Oppress'd the Inhabitants of this province
if it be considered how great a disparity and Difference there
is in respect to the Reall value of the ffees paid to the said
Officers when they are and are not upon Execution; And
tho we conceive the insisting on Mony ffees, to be a hardship
on his Lordships Tenants as well as its being in the option of
Officers to demand what ffees they please, Yet we are of
opinion that the best remedy to prevent the like Complaints
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 of this Affair with a
Clause to be added that all Obligations taken in those Offices
for such ffees as have Accrued since the Expiration of the
Late Law be void and those ffees to be Regulated and paid
according to that Law.
Signd p Order Geo: Plater Clk Up Ho.
In answer whereto the following Message is prepared Viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly March the 18th 1725
May it please Your Honours.
We cannot come into the Measures you propose by Your
Message this day by John Rousby Esqr as to the reviving the
Late Law for regulating Officers ffees But are willing, if your
Honours think fitt to concurr with us therein to the passing
a Bill according to the Regulation propos'd Last Sessions
by the Comittee of both houses, and to the adding a Clause
as well to make void all obligations taken in those offices as
for the refunding all Moneys received for the ffees that have
accrued since the Expiration of the late Law and those
ffees to be paid According to the Regulation proposed last
Sessions which we hope you will Concurr with, as a happy
means of saving us the ungratefull Task of troubling his
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