The Lower House. 153

2.^d Longer Time may be allowed to rechosen Inspectors to give
Notice or they may be allowed to lodge the Notice with the Sheriffs
of their respective Counties in the Time limitted by the Bill to be by
them forwarded with convenient Speed to the Clerk of the Council;
and if Notice be not so given or lodged the Neglect to be considered
as an actual Refusal
3.^d Adhered to. 5.^th Adhered to.
11.^th It was thereby meant that Plaintiffs should have the same
Liberty as heretofore in entering Judgments but that whereby Con-
sent or Agreement a Release of Penalty shall be entered the Sheriff
shall not levy nor charge Commission on a larger Sum than the
Terms of the Release shall require and in such Case also the Sheriff
shall not be liable in any Action of Escape for a larger Sum than the
Terms of the Release shall require the Payment of, and Interest
thereon
12.^th Adhered to.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Nov. 6

14.^th Adhered to, except that the Time for Payment of Money
instead of the 10.^th of April may be extended to the io.^th of June.
15.^th Adhered to.
16.^th From an Assurance that the Bill wou'd not finally pass in
Regard to the Clergy, on the general Alternative given by it this
Proposition appeared to be expedient in Order to prevent any possible
Disappointment on this Account. If however instead of leaving the
Clergy altogether out of the Bill on a Consideration of the Con-
venience to Farmers and others who do not make Tobacco and
effectually to prevent their Oppression it should be thought proper
to provide that the Clergy's Dues may be discharged in the Manner
directed by the late Inspection Act or that the Clergy should be in-
cluded in the Bill with Respect to the Farmers and others not making
Tobacco and subject to the Regulation of the said Act in that Behalf
and with Respect to the Planters be altogether excluded; the Upper
House will make no Objection in any of the above Cases.

The Question was put, that the Question be now put, that the
following Answer be given to the Conferrees of the Upper House
to their last Proposition? Viz^t

After what past between the two Houses at the last Session of
Assembly and the Propositions that were then agreed upon relative
to the Officers, Lawyers and Clergy we did not expect your Honours
would have made Propositions so widely different at this Session on
the same Subject. We are instructed not to agree to them. We
esteem those Points the most Material of any that remain unsettled;
and altho' we are extremely desirous of bringing about a Regulation
of the Staple and providing a handsome Support for the Officers and
Clergy; yet if your Honours still decline a Conference on the new
Table of Fees which we consider as an Explanation and Correction

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