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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Dec. 19
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defaced than heretofore, from frequent using the same, and in a
very short Time, unless Copied at the Expence of the Public or the
Judges, your Committee fear said Alphabet will become quite un-
intelligible in many Parts thereof, to the great Injury and Loss of
many of the inhabitants of this Province.
Your Committee find that the Treasurers Accounts in the Assembly
Office have not been recorded since the Year Seventeen Hundred and
Sixty. Your Committee also find divers old Books in the Commis-
sarys Office in very bad Condition, the Binding torn off, and several
Half Sheets loose. And that many Books which contain Wills and
Inventories prior to the Year Seventeen hundred and Sixty four, do
not appear to be examined, and are very incorrect agreeable to former
Reports. And that a Bundle of Accounts exhibited in Seventeen
Hundred and Fifty nine, and Seventeen Hundred and Sixty, is not
recorded
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Your Committee must observe, that the Books and Papers in this
Office appear to be well taken Care of. And your Committee beg
Leave to inform your honorable House, that having had Informa-
tion that a Record in the Land Office, of a Tract of Land, called
Marshalls Addition, granted unto a certain Isaac Marshall, of
Worcester County, had been altered, immediately made Enquiry
into the Matter, and found that such Information was true, being
told by a young Lad named John Callahan, who writes in said Office,
and who made such Alteration, that a certain James Rounds, a
Deputy Surveyor of Worcester County, some Time in the Month
of October last, came to the Office and got him to show him the
Record of said Land; that the said James Rounds, after looking at
said Record, told him the said Callahan, that there was a Mistake
in the First Course of the Land, and desired he, the said Callahan,
would alter it so as to make it agree with what the said Rounds
called his Field Book, which, the said Callahan says, he at First
refused, thinking it wrong, but by turning to the original Certificate
in the Office, and finding the First Course upon the Plat agreeing
with the Alteration proposed by the said Rounds, he was induced
to believe there might be a Mistake, and did, after much Solicitation
and Persuasion of him the said Rounds, alter the said Record; for
doing which, the said Rounds gave him Five Dollars. A List of
Books in the said Offices is hereunto annexed. All which is humbly
submitted to the Consideration of the Honorable House.
Signed p Order Ralph Dobinson Cl: Com
Which Report was read, and referred to the Consideration of the
next Session of Assembly.
A List of Record Books now being in, and belonging to the Com-
missarys Office taken this Day of
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