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

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Nov. I

"By the Committee of Grievances 28:^th May 1739
Your Committee observe that the ffees of the several Officers and
Ministers of this Province, their deputed Ministers, Servants and
Officers are in themselves, as now paid, excessive great, and oppres-
sive to the Subject; and that the said ffees are under no Regulation
of any Law of this Province that appears to your Committee. That
the said Officers and Ministers, their deputed Ministers, Servants and
Officers by Power of a Proclamation of the Right Honourable the
Lord Proprietary dated the 14:^th Day of April 1733 and one Order
of Council dated the 23:^d Day of April 1735 and one other Order of
Council dated the. 15:^th Day of July hereunto annexed, do charge,
levy, raise, and receive, from his Majesty's Subjects of this Province
such ffees so as aforesaid burthensome, great and oppressive, to the
Discouragement, Ruin, and Undoing of many of his Majesty's liege
Subjects, and even the said Colour of Power is exceeded by the
unlimited Will, and unbounded Avarice of many of the said Officers,
Ministers and their Deputies

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"Your Committee humbly observe that by the Royal Charter, the
Resolves of your Honourable House, and the Common Custom of
this Province, the Subjects here are entituled to the Customs, Com-
mon Law, and the securitive Statutes of the Rights and Liberties
of the Subjects in our Mother Country, Great Britain, by which
Custom of Great Britain, such like ffees of the Courts of Justice
and the several Officers have been settled by Acts of Parliament;
agreable to which
"Your Committee further most humbly observe, that from the
earliest Times since the Settlement of this Province by British Sub-
jects, such ffees have been adjusted and regulated by Acts of the
General Assembly, and not by any other Power or Authority, till
the aforesaid Proclamation.
"Your said Committee most humbly conceive, that such Procla-
mations or Orders of Council, charging his Majesty's leige and
dutiful Subjects with any Tax or Tallage, are invasions, on the
fundamental Constitution of this Province, and against the lawful
Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and are, in themselves, and their
Consequences, very grievous and oppressive to his Majesty's leige
Subjects, the Inhabitants of this Province: but the same is humbly
submitted to the Consideration of your Honble House.
Signed p Order of the Committee Bordley Cl."

On reading the Report, the Question was put, That the House
concur therewith.
Resolved in the Affirmative
The Order of the Day for taking into Consideration the Report
of the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice of the 30:^th
of October 1770 being read; the House resolves as follows —