132 Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46

Officers who have received those Fines and Forfeitures since the
Year 1715, and your unacquaintance with their Executors or Ad-
ministrators, to comply with the whole of our Request; yet as several
of those Officers are now living, we are not without hopes your
Excellency will choose to gratify us in such Part of our Request as
lies within our Power, rather than, from an Inability to comply with
the whole, refuse to us every Part.
And as your Excellency is pleased to say, that the same Reasons
touching the Fines and Forfeitures, will reach the Amerciaments in
the Provincial Court, and that therefore you need not add any Thing
more relating to them; we humbly apprehend, that they being within
the like general Reasons with the Fines and Forfeitures, we are
equally entituled to an Account of them; and as they are to be ap-
plied by the Governor and Council no doubt but the Council Books
do contain the Accounts of them and their Application, Copies
whereof may be laid before us.
Being read and assented to, was ordered on Behalf of the House,
to be signed by the Honourable Speaker.
M^r Pemberton and M^r Bond ordered to acquaint his Excellency,
that this House hath prepared an Address to him, and desires to
know when and where he will be pleased to receive it.

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They return and acquaint M^r Speaker he will receive it immedi-
ately in the Conference Chamber.
M^r Harris and M^r Barnes sent to present the Address
They return and acquaint M^r Speaker they have presented it.
Maj. Hall from the Committee of Laws, brings in a Bill for issuing
Writs of Replevin out of the County Courts of this Province, which
was read the first Time, and Ordered to lie on the Table.
M^r Wootton hath leave of the House to be absent To-morrow.
The House taking into Consideration the Governor's message in
relation to his Lordship's Quit Rents; Resolved that this House will
address his Excellency on the Subject Matter of the said Message,
And Ordered, that the Committee of Laws prepare and bring in an
Address accordingly.
The House Adjourns 'til To Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.

September 3

Tuesday Morning, September 3. 1745

The House met according to Adjournment, and the Proceedings
of Yesterday were read
M^r Mackall and M^r Lecompte appear in the House
An ingrossed Bill entituled, An Act continuing an Act entituled,
An Act for the speedy and effectual Publication of the Laws of this
Province, and for the Encouragement of Jonas Green, of the. City of
Annapolis, Printer.