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

L. H. J.

Liber No. 46

Post Meridiem
The House met according to Adjournment.
A Question was put, Whether this House will agree to settle Offi-
cer's Fees at one fifth Part less than what is now taken, provided, all
Recording and Copying in the Secretary's Commissary's and Land
Offices, and in the Chancery Court and Court of Appeals, be at 8
Pounds of Tobacco per side, and Searchers at 15 Pounds of Tobacco,
and that the Commissary General receive no Fees for Services done
by his Deputies. Resolved in the Affirmative.

For the Affirmative

M^r Bond M^r D. Willson M^r John Hall
Abell Dennis Buchanan
Barnes Lloyd Gordon
I. Gresham Thomas Pemberton
Richard Gresham Ennalls T. Wilkinson
Harris George Hopper
H. Hall Colvill Purnell
Courts Pearce Selby
Harrison Hyland Outten
Stoughton Sherredine
King Paca

For the Negative

M^r G. Willson M^r Brome M^r Wootton
Carroll Mackall Sprigg
p. Hammond N. Goldsborough Addison
Smith J. Goldsborough Bordley
Worthington Hooper T. Hammond
Jos. Hall Lecompte

M^r Goldsborough from the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts
of Justice, delivers M^r Speaker the following Report, viz.
By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice.
Your Committee take leave to inform your Honourable House,
that some Time in December in the year 1743, the Reverend M^r
Nathaniel Whitaker did draw his note payable to M^rs Theodosia
Humphreys (now the wife of M^r Philip Key) for fifty shillings
Current Money, and delivered the same to Mordecai Hammond for
the use of the said Theodosia.
Your Committee further inform your Honourable House, that
in March 1744, on the application of the said Mordecai Hammond
to M^r Philip Jones, one of the Magistrates of Anne Arundell County,
the said Hammond obtained a Warrant against the said Nathaniel
Whitaker, who by Virtue thereof was carried before the said Jones,
and that upon the said Hammonds alledging that the note aforesaid