410 Assembly Proceedings, November 5-21, 1770.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Nov. 16

Answer to the Message of this Day from the Upper House, by John
Beale Bordley, Esq; the following Questions, among other Matters,
be inserted in such Message ? "Do your Honours esteem the several
Charges of frees by the Commissary General, upon Administrations
granted by his Deputies, and for which they are paid, an Abuse of
the old Regulation ? Do your Honours esteem the Charge for record-
ing Papers by the Secretary and County Clerks, in Actions discon-
tinued, abated, struck off, or agreed, when they are not or need not
be recorded, an Abuse? Do your Honours esteem the Charge of
300lb of Tobacco, by Surveys, for laying down adjacent Tracts,
merely to find out and correct the Errors of an original Survey, an
Abuse? Do your Honours esteem the Charge of 300lb of Tobacco
as a Resurvey, by a Surveyor for surveying or laying down a Tract
or Tracts of Land, on a Warrant of Survey from the Provincial
Court, an Abuse? And also the like Charge of 300lb of Tobacco,
for any Tract laid down only for Illustration, an Abuse ? Do your
Honours esteem the Charge by the Examiner General, on every Plot
laid down for Illustration, and on every separate Piece of Vacancy
added, as on separate or distinct Tracts, an Abuse ? Do your Honours
esteem a Charge for a Service never performed, an Abuse?" Re-
solved in the Affirmative

For the Affirmative

Ringgold,

Tilghman,

W. Paca,

Chase,

Deye,

Wright,

Worthington,

J. Paca,

Dashiell,

Johnson,

Aq. Hall,

Luckett,

Griffith,

Beall,

Heugh,

Smallwood,

Tyler,

Wootton.

Ware,

Contee,

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Harrison,

J. Hall,

For the Negative

Key,

Grahame,

Ward,

W. Thomas,

Adams,

Hollyday,

Eden,

Dickinson,

Hopper,

Buchanan,

N. Thomas,

Allen,

Bordley,

Steele,

Purnell.

Mackall,

Veazy,

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Gantt,

Baxter,