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effectual Reduction of Fees, and contribute very much to the Ease
and Convenience of the people, but we think the new Regulation
you have proposed would reduce them so low as not to have a suffi-
cient and proper Support for the Officers — If there have been
Abuses in Practice, under the old Regulation, and the Provisions
in the late Inspection Act are ineffectual for their Prevention we
should be willing to Concur in any reasonable Method, to alter,
explain, or inforce those Provisions; but as the new Regulation is
framed, there can be no doubt but it would be Productive of very
great Reduction, on Articles clearly chargeable under the old, and
for this we Appeal to the two Regulations, and what at first Sight
must strike every Reader.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 13

We entirely Agree with you in Opinion, that Protracting the
Session, by a Procedure from which nothing is to be expected but a
fruitless Expence, ought always to be avoided and therefore ex-
plicitly inform you that we shall adhere, (except as above men-
tioned,) to our Proposition respecting the Regulation.

Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

Mess:^rs Wootton and Heugh bring up an Engrossed Bill, entitled
"An Act to establish a Market in Frederick Town in Frederick
County, and for the Regulation of the said Market" — Read and
Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly, which was Read
and Assented to by this House, and ordered to be So Subscribed,
the Paper Bill so Endorsed Sent to the Lower House by William
Hayward Esquire —

Read the second time, by an Especial Order, in this House, a
Bill entitled. "An Act to remedy the Omission of the Enrollment
of a Deed of Bargain and Sale from Thomas Collier, to Thomas
Lightfoot, William Lightfoot, Abraham Mitchell, Walter Franklin
and Samuel Franklin:" and will Pass with the following Amend-
ment — In the eighth line of the last Page, after the word "Province"
leave out the words "or any other matter or Thing therein con-
tained" So Endorsed and sent to the Lower House by William Hay-
ward Esq.^r

Mess:^rs Heugh and Wootton from the Lower House bring up a
Bill, entitled. "An Act to divide All Saints Parish in Frederick
County, and to erect two new Parishes by the Names of Eden
Parish, and Frederick Parish." Read the first and Second time in
the Lower House and will Pass" — which was Read the first time
in this House, and ordered to lie on the Table.

Adjourned until three of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Eodem Die Post Meridiem.
The House met again according to Adjournment.
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