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39o Assembly Proceedings, May 8-June 2, 1750.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
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For the Negative,
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May 14
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Mr Mills,
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Mr King,
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Mr Gordon,
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Key,
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R. J. Henry,
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Robins,
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Barnes,
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Handy,
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Selby,
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Richard Lloyd,
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Lecompte,
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Scarborough,
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Wilmer,
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Colvill,
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J. Henry,
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Bordley,
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Sheredine,
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Chaplain.
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The said Address was Indorsed, " Read, approved, and ordered
to be Ingrossed."
Col. Hooper, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr.
Speaker the Address to his Excellency, Ingrossed; which was read
and assented to, and signed, by Order of the House, by the Honour-
able Speaker.
Ordered, That Mr. Robert Lloyd and Mr. Stoddert do acquaint
his Excellency the Governor, this House hath prepared an Address
to him, and desires to know when and where he will please to receive
it: They return, and acquaint Mr. Speaker, that the Governor sig-
nified to them, he was ready to receive the Address immediately in
the Conference-Chamber.
Ordered, That Mr. Nicholas Goldsborough, and three more, do
present the Address.
Mr. Key, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr. Speaker a
Bill entituled, An Act to prevent the Exportation of Trash, or bad
Tobacco; which was read the first and second Time by an especial
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Order, and will pass; and was sent to the Upper House by Col.
King, and six more.
The Governor communicates to Mr. Speaker the following An-
swer to the Address of this House; viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
I have, in Compliance with your Address, enquired of the Secre-
tary, by what Right or Claim he takes from the Clerks of the several
Counties, one Tenth Part of their Fees yearly; and have here sent
you inclosed his Answer.
Sam. Ogle.
' To his Excellency the Governor.
' May it please your Excellency,
' In Obedience to your Excellency's Commands, in Compliance
with an Address from the House of Delegates, desiring to be laid
before them the Right or Claim by which the Secretary takes from
the Clerks of the several County Courts of this Province one Tenth
Part of their Fees, yearly; I am to inform your Excellency, that
such Allowance and Payment out of the Clerk's Fees has been an
Usage, long before the time I came into the Office of Secretary; and,
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