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L. H. J.
Liber No. 46
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Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
In Answer to your Address relating to the Naval Officers Bonds,
I do acquaint you, that the several Naval Officers of this Province
give Bond for the due Execution of their Office, which Bonds are
lodged with me, Copies whereof I have ordered to be laid before you
T. Bladen
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p. 471
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Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly.
In Answer to your Address desiring Accounts to be laid before you
of the Fines, Forfeitures, and Amerciaments, which have arisen and
been paid from the year 1715 to this Time.
If you mean only such Fines and Forfeitures as are appropriated
by Acts of Assembly to the Support of Government, I take for
granted, that the Agents, who received them have accounted for
them to the Lord Proprietary, to whom only they were accountable.
As to Fines or Forfeitures by the Common Law, they are as much
his Lordship's Right, as any thing else can possibly be, and there-
fore, if those who received them to his Lordship's use, have honestly
accounted for them to his Lordship, they have fully discharged their
Duty; and I am informed by the present Agent that he has not re-
ceived any other.
And if there was any occasion to lay such Accounts before the
Lower House of Assembly, as you desire, which I think there is not,
it would be a very difficult Task on me to procure such Accounts,
because several of the Gentlemen who have been Agents are dead,
and I am not acquainted with their Executors or Administrators.
The same Reasons will reach the Amerciaments, and therefore I
need not add any Thing more relating to them. T. Bladen
A Question being put, Whether the Letter from Governour
Shirley of New England, to his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esqre
communicated to this House be printed, or not? Resolved in the
Affirmative
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