Thus having given you the chief Reasons that at present Occur
to us for not approving the Report of the Conferees we conclude
with Earnestly desiring that you will with us Consider the neces-
sity of a Law to regulate Officers fees and not insist upon making
such a one as we cannot expect will be Assented to but rather agree
to Conform as near as may be to the regulation made Anno 1719
with a Liberty to the people of paying money by a certain day to be
agreed on at one Penny p pound than suffer the Officers and Peo-
ple to be continually engaged in disputes without any Law to Gov-
ern themselves by.
If your House is inclinable to concur with what we propose we
desire A Committee of both Houses may be again appointed to con-
sider thereof and make a Report Accordingly
Signed p Order Geo. Plater Cl Up Ho.
Read the second time the Bill for Destroying Bears in Somerset
County and the Bill for laying out of Land and erecting a Town in
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