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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Dec. 19
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Plaintiff may perhaps not pay it unless Execution issues, though it
would seem more probable that he always pays it
Your Committee also find a Charge of Search and short Copy of
Judgment upon which Writs of Scire Facias are to be made out,
which your Committee are of Opinion is unjust, illegal, and op-
pressive, and not warranted by the Table of Fees in the Inspection
Law; the Clerks of the County Courts, having, by the said Law a
full Compensation for making out the said Writ, and resorting to
the Record of the Judgment in Order to do it, is a Matter merely
incidental to the Performance of this Duty.
Your Committee cannot but look upon the before mentioned
Charges as unwarrantable, under the Establishment of Officers Fees
within this Province, and oppressive to the good People thereof, but
more particularly to those of Charles County aforesaid, and humbly
submit the whole to the Consideration of the honorable House
Signed by Order Henry Gassaway Cl: Com
Which Report was read and Concurred with.
Mr. E. Tilghman brought in and delivered to M.r Speaker the fol-
lowing Report
By the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice.
Your Committee beg Leave to Report, that upon Complaint of
several of the People of Prince Georges County, of excessive
Charges of Fees upon Resurveys of Lands, did inspect several Plots
which were laid before them, and were of Opinion, the Fees were
charged in a Manner not to be supported by the Table of Fees estab-
lished by Law, but the Cases being very complicated, and the Applica-
tion made late in the Session, your Committee thought it would be
proper to refer the Matter for full Consideration, to the next Session
of Assembly: And as your Committee, from what has appeared to
them in the Course of their Enquiries this Session, from the Diversity
in the Manner of charging County Clerks, and Surveyors Fees, and
from general Report, cannot but be of Opinion, that the Officers of
this Province in general, pay too little Regard to the Regulation
established by Law, in charging their Fees, humbly submit it to
the Consideration of the House, whether it would not be proper for
the Members of the respective Counties, to examine in their several
Counties, as far as they can, into the Charges made by the several
Officers, and bring such Accounts as, to them, may seem exorbitant,
to the next Session, for Examination and full Consideration.
Your Committee beg Leave further to Report, that they did inspect
several Letters laid before them, from Saint Marys County, relative
to some irregular Conduct of a Popish Priest there, but the Letters
being long, and the Session drawing near a Conclusion, your Com-
mittee were of Opinion, the full Consideration of that Matter also
would be well to be referred for a more full Examination than the
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