252 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739

U. H. J.
No. 734

Government and Protection, and have done every other thing in their
Power in Order to render such a Bill useful to the Province.
The Conferees adjourn to three of the Clock in the Afternoon
The Conferees meet according to Adjournment; And thereupon
the Conferees of the Upper House deliver to the Conferees of the
Lower House a Paper, the Purport of which is in the following
Words Viz.
We the Conferees appointed by the Upper House have it in Com-
mand from that House, to acquaint the Conferees of the Lower
House, that they conceive the Proprietarys Authority to settle
Officers fees where there is no positive law for that Purpose to
be indisputable, and that they apprehend the Exercise of such Au-
thority to be agreeable from Time to Time to the several Instruc-
tions from the Throne to the respective Governments; and therefore
that the Upper House cannot but think a Perpetual Law in this Case
reasonable and necessary to settle all Disputes now and hereafter,
and which End could not be obtained by a temporary Law, And
further if any Uneasiness should happen in the Country for Want
of a Law to ascertain the Fees, the Upper House will have this
Satisfaction, that they have made such Advances towards such a
Law, as they doubt not will meet with the Approbation of their
Superiors and every impartial Person, and upon the whole we are
again ordered by the Upper House not to consider of the Quantum
of the fees unless a Perpetual Law be agreed to by the Conferees of
the Lower House
Signed p Order Tho^s Lynn Clk

Adjourned till Monday Morning Nine of the Clock

June 4

p. 45

Monday Morning 4 June 1739
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present

The
honourable

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Philip Lee Esq^r
George Plater Esq^r
[Edmund Jenings Esq^r

James Hollyday Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond
Col Levin Gale
James Harris Esq^r