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By the Lower House of Assembly 14 Sept^r 1745
May it please Your Honours
As We suppose Your Honours will not deny in express terms
that a Parliamentary Proceeding by Bills is an amicable one, nor
that the 21^st day of August is Prior to the 27 day of the same Month

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34

We must in Answer to Your Message of the 11^th Instant inform You
that on the said 21^st day of last Month We sent up to Your House,
after a Passage in this a Bill ent^d an Act for Limitations of Officers
Fees which step taken by us, was, We think this Session the first
Advance for an amicable settlement of the Officers Fees, and which
Bill tho the Fees stand charged in it Considerably higher in every
Article than those of Our Neighbouring Governments, from whence
it might have been reasonably Expected to have passed Your House
Yet to shew the sincerity of your dispositions to concur in any rea-
sonable Measures that might conduce to the Ease and Happiness of
the People was returned to this House Indorsed
By the Upper House of Assembly 27 August 1745
Read the second time by especial Order and will not Pass And
tho from Your Message therewith We entertained hopes the matter
might be Adjusted by a Conference and accordingly proposed One,
And Wherein those named Acted in Pursuance of & agreable to the
Orders and Instructions of this House, Yet to give a further Proof
of your sincere disposition &c^a Your Conferees demanded and We
Agreed for some Ease and Quiet to the People to allow a consid-
erable Advance upon most of the Articles in that Bill, but because
We could not Agree to advance still larger upon the Article of
Copies, out of Your greater Regard to some other Motive than the
Ease & Quiet of the People, that Concession was refused, And thus
ended the Conference from hence will appear the sincerity of your
Disposition to concur in any reasonable Measures that might conduce
to the Ease and Happiness of the People, intimated in Your Message
sent with that Bill, and hence too, take to Your selves what Com-
fort you can, in having very earnestly endeavoured to promote the
Welfare & quiet of the People; But as this House Act upon such
Principles as not to be diverted by any Insinuations or designs what-
ever from endeavouring to procure what Ease and Quiet we are able
to the People, We applied for a farther Conference on the Subject
of Officers Fees to which Proposal since Your Honours have readily
agreed We have named Mess^rs Joshua George, Henry Hall, John
Hall, Nich^o Goldsborough John Gresham and George Buchanan to
join the Members appointed by your House for that Purpose and
We hope that on a Reconsideration of that Subject some such Propo-
sitions may be made as may meet with the Approbation of both

Houses
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman Cl Lo Ho.

Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

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