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The Journal of Accounts was brought in Read and Assented to
Sent to the Upper House by Major Sprigg Captain Sheredine
and Major Trippe
Col^o Colvil from the Committee appointed to Inspect the Accounts
and Proceedings of the Commissioners for Emitting Bills of Credit
&c^a delivers M^r Speaker the following Report (See page 176)

L, H. J.

Which being Read the House Concurs therewith
M^r Magruder from the Committee of Aggrievances &c^a delivers
M^r Speaker the following Report
By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice &c^a
delivers M^r Speaker the following Report
Your Committee humbly Represent that they Inspected the Secre-
taries Office, and find the Provincial Court Proceedings Anno 1739
and some Proceedings in May 1740, are entered up and Recorded in
a large Book Bound in Parchment for that purpose in a fair legible
Hand and the Book of Laws with the Acts pass'd in the two last
Assemblies Entred Examined and Attested according to the direction
of the Act of Assembly We likewise find the Commission of the
Provincial Justices with Dedimus Potestatem dated 3 I^st day of
August 1738 which your Committee conceive the Justices of the
said Court now Act under Recorded in Liber E I N^o 5 Folio i and
likewise Entry made therein of the Justices having taken the several
Oaths to the Government and also the Oath of Judge and Justice of
the Provincial Court and which latter Oath the Clerk has informed
your Committee is the same Oath as directed by An Act intituled
An Act for ascertaining the Form of the Oath of Judge or Justice
We further find a Record Book for Recording Deeds and Con-
veyances carried up to this Instant June and likewise that the Office
is in good Order the several Books and Papers being Regularly
placed in Apartments lately erected

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Your Committee likewise find upon Examination of one of the
Clerks of the said Office that they demand their Fees in the said
Office by Virtue of his Lordships Proclamation, and for which they
take Bonds of some Persons one of which Bonds is in the following
Words viz.

Maryland ss^t
Know all men by these Presents that We Robert Hopkins and
Nicholas Hopkins of Talbot County are held and firmly Bound unto
Edmund Jenings Esq^r Secretary of the Province of Maryland in
the sum of ten thousand Pounds of good Sound Merchantable
Tobacco to be paid to the said Edmund Jenings his Executors Ad-
ministrators and Assigns to the which Payment well and truly to be
made We do hereby bind Ourselves and each of Us our and each
of Our Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns by these Pres-
ents sealed with Our Seals and dated this 8^th day of April 1741

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