The Upper House. 251

At a Conference appointed by the Upper and Lower Houses of
Assembly relating to an Officers fee Bill held on Thursday 3 I^st
May 1739 Viz.

U. H. J.

No. 734

The
honourable]

Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Levin Gale Esq^r

of the Upper House

Doctor Carrol

M^r Stoughton

M^r Calder

M^r Denton

Of the Lower House

M^r George

M^r Rob^t Jenk^s Henry

Who make Choice of the honourable Edmund Jenings Esq^r their
Chairman and of Thomas Lynn their Clerk
The Conferees appointed by the Upper House informed the
Conferees appointed by the Lower House that they were commanded
by the Upper House to acquaint the Conferees of the Lower House,
that the Upper House could agree to no Law to establish Officers
fees but what should be perpetual and were ordered not to proceed
to consider of any fees till the sense of the Lower House on that
Point should be made known
To which the Conferees appointed by the Louver House say they
cannot give any Answer until they advise their House thereof and
take their Directions therein.
And thereupon the Conferees adjourn until to Morrow Morning
at ten of the Clock
Friday morning the Conferees meet according to Adjournment
The Conferees of the Lower House deliver the Conferees of the
Upper House the Directions of the Lower House to their said Con-
ferees in Answer to the Proposal of the Conferees of the Upper
House which Directions are as follow Viz.

This house having taken into Consideration the Report of their

Members appointed Conferees concerning the Officers fee Bill and
the Proposal made by the Conferees appointed by the Upper House,
of making that Bill a perpetual Act, do unanimously agree that it
would be of the most dangerous and destructive Consequence to the
People of this Province to make such an Act perpetual
And that their Conferees af^d have it in Charge to Acquaint the
Conferees of the Upper House with this their Resolution and reject
the Proposal aforesaid
And that if the said Conferees from the Upper House, should refuse
to proceed in the Conference without this Houses acquiescing in that
Proposal, they be told as from this House that all the Evils that shall
arise to the People of this Province for Want of an Act for regulating
Officers fees must be laid to the Charge of the Upper House inas-
much as this House by the Bill proposed have given Fees & a longer
Duration than has been in the like Act in Our Neighbouring Colony
of Virginia, which is immediately under his Majestys auspicious

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