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Saturday November 17,th 1770.
The House met according to Adjournment.
The Members were called, and all appeared as on Yesterday, except
M.r Gantt.
The Proceedings of Yesterday were read.
M.r Gilpin appeared in the House
The Governor communicates to M.r Speaker the following Mes-
sage, Viz.t
Annapolis, November 17. 1770
Gentlemen,
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Nov. 17
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I observe by the Reports, which accompanied your Address of
Yesterday, that some of the Errors and Omissions therein com-
plained of, are of a very old Date, and, I fear, not now to be
remedied; but I shall communicate the Reports of your Committee,
and your Address, to the Gentlemen, who at present have Custody
of the Records and Papers you mention, and will recommend it to
them, to make any further Application to me, on such a Subject,
unnecessary. Rob:t Eden
The Message brought in Yesterday by M.r Chase was read a
second Time, and ordered to be ingrossed. M.r Chase brings in, and
delivers to M.r Speaker the said Message, ingrossed: Which was
read and assented to, and sent to the Upper House, with the Bill,
entitled, An Act for the Payment of John Duckett and others, by
M.r W. Paca, and M.r J. Hall. They return, and acquaint M.r
Speaker, they delivered the Bill and Message.
M.r Johnson brings in, and delivers to M.r Speaker the following
Message Viz.t
By the Lower House of Assembly, November 17,th 1770.
May it please your Honours,
From recapitulating in your Messages particular Parts of your
Conduct in our Intercourse on the Inspection Bills, in the last and
present Session, you seem desirous of doing something more than
removing, as far as you can, all Misunderstanding, or to shew the
proper State to which the Matter has been brought: Your Honours
will therefore permit us to place, in One View, our Conduct on the
Subject, as well as some Part of yours, which you may inadvertently
have omitted. After an Enquiry into the amount of ffees, in the
principal Offices, as well as into their State and Condition, and being
satisfied of the Exorbitancy of the Profits, and the negligent and
careless Manner in which those Offices have been executed; we com-
pared many Accounts in which the ffees of Office were charged, with
the old Regulation, which ought to have governed therein; and
finding that many Articles had become Common Place Charges, in
Instances where no Service at all was done; that others were doubly
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