182 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
October 22

Province for being concerned in Rebellion against the King, from
voting for Delegates to serve in Assembly ;
Which was read the first Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
The House adjourns till the morrow Morning 8 of the Clock.

October 23

Tuesday Morning, October 23, 1753.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c. all the Members
appeared as Yesterday, except Capt. Hopper, and Mr. Earle.
On reading the Petition of William Wells, and Rebecca his Wife,
Ordered, That Major Hall, Capt. Gassaway and Mr. Stoddert, be

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a Committee to enquire into the Allegations and Facts contained in
the said Petition, and report the same to the House.
The Petition of Thomas Barkley, a languishing Prisoner in Kent
County Goal, was read and granted according to prayer.
Capt. Henry Travers and Mr. Joseph Cox Gray, two Members
returned to serve in the present Assembly for Dorchester County,
appeared in the House.
Ordered, That Col. Hooper and Mr. Charles Goldsborough, do go
with them to the Upper House to see them qualified: They return,
and acquaint Mr. Speaker, they saw them take the several Oaths to
the Government required by Law, subscribe the Oath of Abjuration,
repeat and sign the Test.
The Gentlemen took their Seats in the House.
On motion, Resolved, That this House will not proceed on any
new Business after next Wednesday Se'nnight, being the 31st
Instant.
Ordered, That the Committee of Accounts do not receive any
Accounts for the public Claims after next Monday, being the 29th
Instant.
Doctor Carroll, from the Committee appointed by the Honourable
the Lower House of Assembly, to enquire of the several Officers,
their Deputies, Registers or Clerks, the Amount of the Fees that have
accrued due to them in their several Offices for Seven or Eight Years
last past, delivers to Mr. Speaker the following Report, viz.
October 23, 1753.
Your Committee, in Obedience to the Order of your Honourable
House, sent to the Provincial, Land, Commissary's, and Chancery
Officers, for the Amount of the Fees, in the said respective Offices,
for the Year 1745, to the Year 1752, distinctly, and have received,
from the several Clerks, the Accounts hereunto annexed.
Your Committee humbly observe, That the Amount of the Fees in
the said Offices, for the Year 1745, 46 and, 47, except the Year 1745
in the Land Office, the Account of which could not be found,
amounted to 1,800,624 Pounds of Tobacco; and that under the