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This House unanimously Concurs with the Report.
M^r Mathews from the Committee of Aggrievances delivers M^r
Speaker the following Report viz.

By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice
May 26, 1739

Your said Committee humbly beg Leave to inform your House
that upon Inspecting the Records and Papers of the Provincial
Office and upon demanding of the Clerk of the said Office by what
Authority the several Fees of that office where Charged the said
Clerk informed your said Committee that the said fees were Charged
by virtue of a Regulation made by the Lord Baltimores Proclama-
tion.
That it being also demanded of him in what manner the Lists of
such Fees were sent or in what manner Collected the said Clerk
Answered that Bonds were taken and sent to the Sheriffs with the
particulars Indorsed, and Lists also
That upon its being further demanded of him the said Clerk in
what Specie the fees were Charged, he Informed Your said Com-
mittee that the same were Charged in Tobacco, but that where money
is paid on doing the Business, they then take Twenty Shillings p
Hundred in lieu of Tobacco, and so pro Rato at the Choice of the
party.
That the said Clerk being requested to produce such Bonds as are
usually taken for Fees, he produced to Your Committee the three
following Bonds viz.

Maryland ss^t Know all men by these Presents that I A. B. of
County planter am held and firmly Bound unto Edmund
Jenings Esq^r Secretary of the Province of Maryland in the Sum
of Five Thousand Pounds of Tobacco to be paid to the said Edmund
Jenings his Executors Administrators and Assigns to the which
payment well and truly to be made I do hereby bind myself my
Heirs Executors and Adminis^rs and Assigns by these presents Sealed
with my Seal and dated this 17 day of May 1733
The Condition of the above Obligation is such that if the Above
Bound A B do and shall from Time to Time pay or cause to be paid
to the above named Edmund Jenings his Executors Administrators
or Assigns all Fees which are or shall be due to the said Edmund
Jenings as Secretary of this Province from him in a Cause between
him the said A B defendant and C. D. Plaintiff in the Provincial
Court according to the Regulation made by the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary in Council the 14^th day of April 1733 on or
before the tenth day of May after the same shall be demanded then

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