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414 Assembly Proceedings, November 5-21, 1770.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Nov. 17
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by the Examiner General on every Platt laid down for Illustration
and on every Piece of Vacancy added as on separate and distinct
Tracts, an Abuse or not? Whether your Honours esteem the addi-
tional Charge of Order in the Commissary's Office to almost every
Act done therein, and which hath been estimated at the annual
Amount of above 40,000 Pounds of Tobacco, when the Table makes
the Allowance only, "for Orders in Testamentary Causes," an Abuse
or not ? Whether your Honours esteem a Charge for Services never
performed, an Abuse, or not? All these Charges we are most clear
in Opinion are Abuses and such as we are determined never to
permit: To prevent, therefore, any Disappointment, we request your
Honours will let us know explicitly your Sense of these particulars —
If you are of Opinion these are real Abuses, and a Correction appears
to you to be expedient, we shall, on our being informed thereof,
expect a happy Issue from the Conference which we proposed, and
which on these Terms we are ready to enter into. We shall cer-
tainly instruct our Conferrees, that these Charges are Abuses, and
must in all Events be provided against; and unless your Honours
agree with us herein, as no good Effects can be expected from a
Conference, we have only to repeat our Request, that you will
be pleased to let us know, whether you are willing to pass the
Bill as a Regulation of the Staple, Lawyers ffees, Clergy's Allowance,
and the Payment of the Publick, County, and Parochial Charges,
leaving Officers ffees to be provided for at a subsequent Session.
Signed by Order Jn.o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.
Which was read the first and second Time, and the Question was
put that the House agree to the same ? Resolved in the Affirmative
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For the Affirmative
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Ringgold,
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Tilghman,
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J. Hall,
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Chase,
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Deye,
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W. Paca,
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Worthington,
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J. Paca,
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Wright,
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Johnson,
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Aq. Hall,
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Dashiell,
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Griffith,
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Gilpin,
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Luckett,
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Smallwood,
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Beall,
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Heugh,
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Ware,
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Tyler,
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Wootton.
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Harrison,
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Contee,
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For the Negative
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Key,
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Grahame,
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Baxter,
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W. Thomas,
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Adams,
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Ward,
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Eden,
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Dickinson,
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Hollyday,
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Buchanan,
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N. Thomas,
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Hopper,
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Bordley,
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Steele,
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Allen,
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Mackall,
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Veazy,
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Purnell.
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