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100 Assembly Proceedings, November 1—December 20, 1765.
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U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Dec. 19
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without any Scruple, and therefore did not most probably, foresee
he would ever be called upon to state a particular Account, and for
that Purpose, be obliged to adopt a Rule they had established in a
private Concern. Your next Exception is to the Clerks Attendance
p Diem, which as we understand it, amounts to this, that there is a
Charge for Attendance & Services done on the same Day, and
therefore, that either the Attendance or the particular Service ought
not to be Charged. Your Objection proceeds from a palpable Error;
when the Clerk attends, he takes, for the most part, only Minutes
of what is to be done, & from these he afterwards draws up in
Form, & for the subsequent Draught his Charge is made. Part of
the Sum of 7448lb of Tobacco mentioned in the Report of our Com-
mittee, and to which you Object, we find, upon a more accurate
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p. 280
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Examination, ought not have been Charged. It was omitted by
Mr Ross, and the Gentlemen of the Committee were easily led into
the Mistake, by supposing it had happened in this as well as in other
Instances, that the Clerk had made out a Proclamation for each
County as usual, and by being uninformed that, by Order of the
Governor, the Proclamations had been Printed by Mr Green. The
Charge ought to have been only 1818lb of Tobacco, so that there is
an Excess of 6630lb of Tobacco, the Sum of 1818 arises as follows
Viz.t
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Lb
Tobacco
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Proclamations for Training the Militia & keeping their
Arms in Order 2 Sides Recorded and 15 Times issued ...
Proclamation publishing certain Clauses of the £40,000
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288
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Law concerning the Collection of Duties which were to
take Place sooner than it was apprehended the Laws
could be published 3 1/4 sides Recorded & issued 15 Times .
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468
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Recording the Clauses annexed to these Proclamations
59 Sides ......................................
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531
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Making out a Copy for the Printer ...................
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531
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1818
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But this Excess being deducted, still the Charge for Services done,
exceeds the salary, so that it is not material on the Question whether
the salary ought to be allowed? The Charge of 1762 April 20:th
50 Copies of his Majesties Declaration with Proclamations of
War sent to the several Counties 714 Sides 6426lb of Tobacco is
right, but we confess you might easily apprehend it to be wrong,
upon the supposition, that only one Proclamation issued to each
County as is usual in other Cases, however the Fact is, that the
Proclamations issued to the Officers of the Militia and of the Cus-
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