234 Assembly Proceedings, September 25-November 2, 1770.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 12

an Act for the Tryal of all Matters of Fact in the several Counties
where they have arisen or shall arise — Which was read the first Time
and ordered to lie on the Table

M.^r Ringgold also brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker the fol-
lowing Report

By the Committee appointed to view the Model of a Machine to
thresh Wheat, offered by John Clayton.

Your Committee in Obedience to the Order of the House have
viewed the said Model and are of Opinion that a Machine constructed
thereon will be very useful to the Province and answer the Purposes
set forth in said Clayton's Petition —

Signed p Order Jn.^o Johnson Cl. Com.
The House adjourns till To-Morrow Morning Eight O'Clock

Oct. 13

Saturday October 13:^th 1770
The House met according to Adjournment —

The Members were called and all appeared as on Yesterday except
M.^r Noel, M.^r Wright and M.^r Hooper—

The Proceedings of Yesterday were read
M.^r Goldsborough from the Committee of Accounts brings in and
delivers to M.^r Speaker the Journal of Accounts. Which was read
and assented to — Sent to the Upper House by M.^r Goldsborough
and M.^r Gilpin. They return and acquaint M.^r Speaker they delivered
the Same
The Bill entitled An Act to enable the Justices of Somerset County
to levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of Somerset Parish in the said
County a Quantity of Tobacco for the Purposes therein mentioned,
read the second Time and will pass — Sent to the Upper House by
M.^r Gale and M.^r Selby — They return and acquaint M.^r Speaker
they delivered the Bill

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Ordered, That the Order of the Day for taking into Consideration
the Regulation of Officers ffees be now read, and the said Order
being read accordingly the House resolved itself into the said Com-
mittee; and after some Time spent therein M.^r Speaker resumed the
Chair, and M.^r Worthington reported from the Committee that they
had come to several Resolutions which they had directed him to
report to the House, which he read in his Place and afterwards
delivered in at the Table, where the same were read, and are as
followeth Viz.^t
Resolved unanimously That all Officers ffees shall be regulated
in Tobacco, subject to be discharged either in Tobacco or in Gold
and Silver at the following Rates, Regulations and Values viz.^t