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prepared an Address to his Excellency, and desires to know, when
and where he will be pleased to receive it: They return and ac-
quaint M^r Speaker, his Excellency will receive it immediately, in
the Conference Chamber. M^r Smith, and M^r Harris, are sent to
present the Address. They return, and acquaint M^r Speaker they
have presented it.
The House adjourns to 2 of the Clock.

Post Meridiem

The House met according to Adjournment, And Adjourn again
'til To-Morrow Morning, 9 of the Clock.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46

Friday Morning, Aug^t 16^th 1745

The House met according to Adjournment. The Proceedings of
yesterday were read.
Col. King from the Committee of Accounts, delivers M^r Speaker
the following Representation :
By the Committee of Accounts, Aug^t 16^th 1745
Your Committee having several Officers Accounts of Fees before
them, for Allowance, which Fees appear to be charged agreeable
to a Proclamation of the Lord Proprietary, in Council, dated the
14^th Day of April 1733, your Committee desire the Directions of
the House in what manner the said Fees shall be allowed
Signed p Order, Richard Dorsey Cl. Com.
Which being read, Ordered, that such Part of the said Officers

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Accounts as shall be allowed, be made Agreeable to the Regulation
of Fees made in a Bill last Session sent to the Upper House, enti-
tuled an Act for Limitation of Officers Fees.
M^r Speaker communicates to the House the following Message
from his Excellency the Governour.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly.
Were I to Judge of your Address by the Reasoning Language,
and Stile of it, I should put no other Construction upon it, but that
you were at a Loss how to defeat the Service you are met upon, and
that you were resolved to treat me with the utmost Indecency and
ill manners, meerly to furnish your selves with a Pretence, that you
were diverted from the Method of Proceeding that would have ren-
dered your services most useful and agreeable to his Majesty. But
as you say you are determined not to be so diverted, let your Pro-
ceedings give Evidence of the Sincerity of your Words, and I shall
rejoice at it, and shall willingly lose the Remembrance of your
extraordinary Behaviour towards myself, in the Pleasure I shall
receive, when I shall see your Actions correspond with the Profes-

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