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accompanied with less difficulties in a Conference than in any other
manner, and therefore hope You will once more appoint such Gen-
tlemen of your House as You think proper to join some of Ours in
another Conference in Order if possible to regulate and settle Offi-
cers Fees, that the same may be reduced into a Law
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman Cl Lo Ho.
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
The following Message is sent by Col^o Hammond
By the Upper House of Assembly 11 September 1745
Gentlemen
Your Journal will show that on the 27 of August last this House
by Message made the first Advance for an Amicable Settlement of
the Officers Fees and We may now say the sincerity of Our disposi-
tions to concur in any amicable measures that may conduce to the
Ease and Happiness of the People intimated in that Message must
stand confessed by your House and the whole Province; for in Con-
sequence of that Message Our House made Offers for Reduction
of the Fees, so far beyond your own Hopes & Expectations that you
concluded You might ask any thing and Our House would refuse
nothing, and that therefore You need not Bound Yourselves by
Reason since the Willingness of this House for the Ease and Quiet-
ness of the People of this Province was without Bounds, to such like
reasoning and not any Averseness in You to the Ease and Quiet of
your Constituents, We would willingly impute what followed in the
Conference where after the Conferees of this House had made such
large Concessions as nothing hardly was left to ask by your House,
and in particular had agreed to reduce the Copying fees to nine
Pounds of Tobacco from twelve in one Office and Eleven in the

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other Offices Yet the Conferees of Your House disagreed from those
of Our House because Our Conferees would not consent to a further
reduction of that Fee to Eight We might from hence take sufficient
Comfort to Ourselves in having very earnestly endeavoured to pro-
cure the Welfare and Quiet of the People but as this House Acts
upon such Principles as not to be diverted by the mistakes or Misap-
prehensions of other People from pursuing the Real Good & Interest
of the County and as We consider an Officers fee Bill one of the
Steps for procuring a Good Harmony between the Government &
People We do assure you that as We have now Reason to hope your
house is not less earnest for a good Understanding and removal of
Jealousies and Uneasinesses then We are Ourselves We shall very
readily take the Officers fee Bill again into Our Consideration so

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