The Lower House. 219

The following Bill of Cost was brought into the House and read
in the following words viz :

June Court 1728.

L. H. J.

E I. Samuel Chew

Copy Cost N^o 6 Cap^s 14. Sherr 45

ag^t

Decl & Copy 112.

171

I. G. Nicholas Day

To fil protest 24 Ent. Clients Cert. 12

36

To Ent. Cap^s & ret 9 Amercement 4

13

To Ent. appe. 5 rul for baile 4

9

To Ent. Comm. 4 Rule to Plead 4.

8

To Ent. Sig. Judgm^t 24 Discharge of

Committm^t 4.

28

To fil Cost 7 and Copy 7.

14

To Attorneys fee

100

379

Vera Copia p^r John Stokes Cl :

On the back of which Bill of Cost there was the following Re-
ceipt, viz.

Received the within Cost of John Baldwin it being due for
Charges on a Suit brought against me for a Protested bill of Ex-
change which I Indorsed being drawn by John Onchterlony. I say
rec^D p me
Nicholas Day.
8^th July 1728.

The House having taken into Consideration the foregoing bill of
Cost between Samuel Chew Plantiff and Nicholas Day Defendant
unanimously agree that the Same is illegally charged and exacted,
the severall Articles not being Charged according to the regulation
of Officers fees in 1725 and the Particular Articles of filing Protest
24 and Entring Clients Certificate 12 being wholly extortionate
there being no foundation in Law or Justice whereon to ground the
same Wherefore this house resolves that the Clerk of Baltemore
County hath been guilty of extortion and order, the Attorney Gen^ll
of this Province to Prosecute him for the Same. And that the
Clerk of this House deliver to the Attorney Generall or the Person
who shall Prosecute his Lordships Pleas at next Baltemore County
Assizes a Copy of this Order.
Ordered that the Committee of Accounts receive no Account
after Thursday next.

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