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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 30
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will pass. Sent to the Upper House by M.r Gantt and M.r Beall They
return and acquaint M.r Speaker they delivered the Bill
M.r Grahame brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker a Bill, entitled,
An Act to enable the Commissioners for emitting Bills of Credit to
pay to John Duckett, William Mills and John Peacock the Sums of
Money therein mentioned. Which was read the first and second Time
by an especial Order and will pass Sent to the Upper House by
M.r Deye and M.r Ware. They return and acquaint M.r Speaker
they delivered the Bill
M.r Worthington brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker the fol-
lowing Report
By the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice October the
30:th 1770
Your Committee beg Leave to report to your Honourable House,
that being informed, William Steuart, Clerk of the Land Office, had
taken a Note of Hand in that Office from William Hamlin with Se-
curity for the Payment of a Sum of Money on the issuing a Warrant
of Escheat in the said Office to the said Hamlin and that the said
William Steuart did administer to the said Hamlin the Oath of not
making Tobacco heretofore used; the said William Steuart attended
your Committee by Order and acquainted your Committee That upon
Application made to him as Clerk of the Land Office by William
Hamlin for a Special Warrant of Escheat he applied to Benedict
Calvert and George Steuart Esquires his Principals, by Letter for
their Directions as to the Receipt or Security of the ffees of the
said Office. That they both came into the Office and gave him verbal
Directions that he should upon any Application to him for Business
to be done in that Office take the ffees allowed by the late Inspection
Law or Notes therefor or for the Payment of such ffees as should
be allowed by any Regulation made by the Assembly or by Procla-
mation —
That if a Person made no Tobacco and therefore purposed to pay
in Money at 12/6 that then he should administer the Oath of not
making Tobacco heretofore in Use to such Person — That if ready
Money was offered by those who made Tobacco that then the ffees
should be received at 15/. per Hundred. That in Consequence of
such Directions he the said William Steuart (being a Justice of the
Peace) administered such Oath to the said William Hamlin and took
of him, and Robert Buchanan, as his Security, a Promissory Note
as well as in a Course of Business two other Notes for Special War-
rants, Copies of which Notes are hereto annexed, and which the said
William Steuart informed your Committee are the only Securities
taken for the Payment of ffees in that Office — That he received from
each of the Parties Ten Shillings to himself for his drawing a Peti-
tion for each of the said Warrants — Which Proceedings and Doings
in the said Land Office your Committee are of Opinion are in no
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