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collecting the same the Justices of the said Several County Courts
within this Province are hereby impowered and required to allow
and assess in their respective County Levies at the time when the next
Levy shall be laid after Eighteen Copies of the said Collection cast
off upon good Paper in large Folios and with a fair Type and
agreeable to the proposals before mentioned shall have been deliv,d
by the said Thomas Bacon well Bound in Calf Skin and Lettered
to the Persons hereafter named that is to say one Copy thereof to His
Excellency the Governor, or Commander in Chief for the Time,
being one to each Clerk of the two houses of Assembly for the Use
of their respective Houses one to the Clerk of the provincial Court
for the Use of the said Court one to the Clerk of each County Court
for the Use of their respective Courts And the said Several sums
of Money so to be allowed and assessed as afs :d Shall be Collected
by the sheriff of each respective County and paid by them respectively
free from any abatement or deduction to the said Thomas Bacon
upon his producing to them a Certificate from his Excellency the
Governor or the Commander in Chief for the time being and from
each of the Clerks above mentioned certifying that they have re-
spectively received the said printed Copies well bound and lettered
as aforesaid In the 5th line of last Page Lave out all that follows, the
Word Work to the End, and insert which he shall cause to be forth-
with printed and he the said Thomas Bacon is hereby required care-
fully to Supervise and Correct the press for which Attendance and
trouble he shall be allowed the sum of 6o£ in the Journall of
Accounts
Signed p Order John Ross Clk. Up. Ho
Sent by Bent Calvert Esqr
The honble Sam Chamberlaine Ben:t Calvert Esqr bring in the
following Report
The honourable the Upper House having appointed Samuel Cham-
berlaine and Benedict Calvert Esqrs to Inspect the Journal of Ac-
counts sent up by the Lower House of Assembly
In Pursuance of the said Appointment Your Committee met on
Wednesday the Sixth Day of May 1761 and made Choice of John
Davidson for their Clerk
We Beg leave to Report to Your Honours that pursuant to the
appointment aforesaid We have taken the said Journal under our
Consideration And find that many Claims which upon recollection
We have reason to believe ought to have been entered and Allowed
upon the Journal are omitted And in Particular We do not find any
Allowance there to the Governor for a Considerable sum for Sundry
Expences Mr Ross as Clerk of the Council
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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
May 6
p. 490
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