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

L. H. J.

he cannot fix any Value for printing the whole But humbly
Conceivs the fairest way for Your Excellency and Honours
as well as for the proposer is that a Certain Price be Limited
at so much a Sheet. Then there Can be no hardship on
Either Side.
3^dly That as to the Body of Laws hitherto made in this
Province they are so Voluminous, and the Charge of Printing
them will be so great that I am Suspicious Lest the burthen
should be thought by the Country too great at once There-
fore if Your Excellency and Honours agree to the Above
proposalls and shall use proper Means to Establish me for a
Certain number of Years that I may think myself setled
Among you in Regard to the Country which perhaps I may
Live and die [in] (if so Established here) I will undertake to
Ease the publick of that Charge and Content my self with
runing the hazard of subscriptions for it provided in all those
Cases that Care be taken by Your Excellency and Honours
that I may have Exact Copies deliver'd to me in due time.

To the Honble The Lower House.

Wee of the Conferees haveing considered the within pro-
posalls do make the following Report therein Viz.
As to the I^st we agree thereto with this alteracon that he
print the publick Laws and the Speeches and Answers at the
opening Each Session and that he be allowed Two Thou-
sand pounds of Tobacco for Each County by the Respective
Countys Yearly.
To the 2^d It is proposed that he be allowed for printing
the Journalls, Votes, Speeches and other debates and Re-
solves Each Sessions at the Rate of twenty Shillings p sheet
and that he furnish Each Member a Copy of them And that
the Encouragement given the printer Continue Seven Years
this Agreed to Only by the Members of the Lower House
To the 3^d It is propos'd that he furnish Every Member
of both Houses with a Compleat Body of the whole Laws
and one for Every Court and one for Every Magistrate of
Each Court at the Rate of Twenty four shillings Each bound
to be paid by the publick This proposall is Likewise agreed
to by the Conferees.
Signd p order Sam^l Hepburn Clk Conferees.

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Which being read this House approves thereof and it
is Resolved that the said Parks be allowed after the Rate
menconed in the second Paragraph of the Report for printing
any the publick proceedings of the last Sessions, And that he