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M.r Beall brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker the following
Report
By the Committee upon the Petition of Robert Dick and others
Your Committee have proceeded to examine into the Facts set
forth in the said Petition and find by the annexed Articles of Agree-
ment for building two Warehouses at Bladensburgh that the same
were to have been compleated by the fifteenth Day of July One thou-
sand seven hundred and sixty seven and by the annexed Deposition
of William Deakins one of the Inspectors at said Warehouse that
Year it will (among other Things) appear that the Warehouses
aforesaid were not compleated at the Time of the Freshes which
occasioned the Damage sustained in the Tobacco in one of the said
Warehouses. All which is submitted to the Consideration of the
Honourable House
Signed by Order Jn.° Courts Jones Cl.
Which being read; Ordered, That the Petition of Robert Dick
and others be read; and it was read accordingly.
Ordered, That the several Papers annexed to the said Report be
read; and they were read accordingly.
Ordered, That the 141, 142, and 143 Sections of an Act of As-
sembly entitled An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco for pre-
venting Frauds in his Majesty's Customs and for the Limitation of
Officers Fees made October Session 1763 be read; and they were
read accordingly.
Upon Consideration of the above Petition and other Papers the
House resolved, That the Public shall not be burthened to make good
any Loss mentioned in the said Petition
On Motion, Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for the
Relief of the Sufferers at Bladensburgh Warehouse: And that M.r
Hall, M.r Beall, and M.r Tyler do prepare and bring in the same.
Ordered, That the Order of the Day for taking into Consideration
the Report of the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice
of the 10.th Instant be read; and it was read accordingly.
Ordered, That the said Report be read; and it was read accordingly.
Ordered, That the Proclamation issued the 26.th November 1770
be read; and it was read accordingly
Ordered, That a Paper Writing under the Great Seal, signed by
the Governor, the 24.th November 1770 be read; and it was read
accordingly
Ordered, That the Resolves of the Lower House of Assembly
of the 1.st November 1770 be read; and they were read accordingly.
The House was moved That the Stat. of 34.th Edw.d I. Cap. I. be
read; and it was read accordingly
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