256 Assembly Proceedings, November 1-December 20, 1765.

L. H. J.

Liber No. 52
Dec. 19

Henry Hollyday Esq.^r brings in and delivers to M^r Speaker the
following Report Viz

By the Committee appointed to inspect into the State of the several
Public Offices and to make Report thereof to the House

Your Committee beg Leave to inform your Hon.^ble House that
early in the Session they entred upon an Examination of the State
of the Public Offices and made some Progress therein but the
advanced Season of the Year the Dampness of those Offices and the
close Attendance of your Commee on your Hom.^ble House have pre-
vented their Making so thorough an Exaiaton as will be necessary
to perfect a Report and your Commee humbly conceive that to evince
the great Utility of such a Work at a convenient Season they need
only observe that in comparing sev.^l Orig.^l Wills with the Records
in the Commissary's Office they did not in any one Instance find the
Record agree with the Original
Signed p Order Jn.^o Duckett Jun.^r Clk

which was read the first Time and Ord.^d to lye on the Table
On Reading the 2.^d Time the Message from the Up. Ho. sent with
Gen.^l Murray's Letter represent^g the Distress of the Inhitants of
Montreal occasioned by Fire and on Consideration thereof
The Question was put that a Contribution be made by this Prov-
ince to the Sufferers by Fire at Montreal

Resolved in the Affirmative

For the Affirmative

Key

Parran

J. Hollyday

Ringgold

H. Hollyday

Allen

Lloyd

R. Goldsborough

Chapline

Johnson

Lee

Smith

Grahame

J. Hall [of] Balt

Chase

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For the Negative

Sothoron

Cockey Deye

Jacob

Buchanan

Hyland

Tyler

Hanson

Ward

Selby

Dent

Murdock

J. Hall [of]

Ann.^s

Ware

Bealle

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