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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Nov. 21
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Resolved, nemine contradicente, That the Upper House, four
Members of which hold the Secretary's, Commissary General's and
Land Office, and the ffees of which Offices were attempted to be
regulated by the first mentioned Bill, have, in the Intercourse between
the two Houses, on the Subject of that Bill, and by their ultimate
Rejection thereof, manifested an unreasonable Attachment to the
Emoluments of Office, and by their Rejection of the said other Bills
that House hath evinced an unjustifiable Design to force this
Branch of the Legislature by the ffeelings of the People, into a Regu-
lation of Fees more correspondent to those Schemes of Wealth &
Power which it is much to be apprehended are formed by some of
the great Officers of this Government, and which if carried into
Execution will tend to the Oppression of the People, and, in the
End, greatly endanger their Liberties
Resolved, nemine contradicente, That the Charge of ffees (esti-
mated at above the annual Amount of 60,000lb Tobacco) by the
Commissary General, upon Administrations granted by his Deputies,
and for which they are paid, is an Abuse of the old Regulation of
ffees, illegal and oppressive
Resolved, unanimously, That the additional Charge, by the Com-
missary General, of Order to almost every Service done in his Office
(estimated at above the annual Amount of 4O,000lbs of Tobacco)
when by the same Regulation it was only allowed in Testamentary
Causes is an Abuse, of that Regulation, illegal and oppressive
Resolved, unanimously, That the Charge by the Secretary and
County Clerks of this Province, for recording of Papers, in Actions
discontinued, abated, struck off, or agreed, when they are not, nor
need be recorded, is an Abuse of the same Regulation illegal and
oppressive
Resolved, unanimously, That the Charge by the Secretary, for
making up Issues in the Provincial Court when the same is done by
the Attornies; for issuing a Venire ffacias for Jurors, when none is
issued, for Copy of Judgment, on issuing Executions, or for Search
and Copy of Judgment, on issuing Scire facias, is an Abuse of the
same Regulation, illegal and oppressive
Resolved, unanimously, That the Charge of 300lbs of Tob.o by
Surveyors, for laying down adjacent Tracts, merely to correct the
Errors of an original Survey, is an Abuse of that Regulation, illegal
and oppressive.
Resolved, unanimously, That the Charge of 300 lbs of Tobacco
by Surveyors as for a Resurvey for surveying or laying down each
Tract of Land on a Warrant of Survey, from the Provincial Court;
and of 300 lbs of Tobacco for any Tract of Land laid down only for
Illustration, is an Abuse of that Regulation, illegal and oppressive.
Resolved, unanimously, That the Charge by the Examiner General,
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