200 Assembly Proceedings, October 2—November 30, 1771.

L H. J.

Liber No. 54
Nov. 22

cause it was in some Particulars exorbitant, but for that, too many
great Abuses had been committed by the Officers in their Charges,
which could be palliated only from the Doubtfulness of the Ex-
pression in the Tables, and therefore submitted to the Loss of an
incontrovertibly useful Regulation of the Staple of Tobacco; and
after too, your Excellency in your said Message told the late Lower
House, that "so far as you might be concerned in his Lordship's
Authority interposing in any Regulation of the ffees of Officers, you
should take good Care to act on mature Consideration, and that
what you should judge to be right and just, would be the only
Dictate by which you should be determined"; yet we cannot but
be apprehensive that you issued that Proclamation and past that
other Instrument under the Great Seal, on the Advice of some of
those, whose Interest in the ffees thus attempted to be illegally
established, ought to have excluded them from your Excellency's
Confidence, in all Things relative to the ffees of Office. We therefore
earnestly entreat your Excellency to quiet the Minds of the good
People of this Province, by speedily withdrawing the said Proclama-
tion, as well as the said other Instrument establishing ffees in the
Land Office; and that you will be pleased to make known to us the
Names of those ill Advisers who have daringly presumed thus to
tread on the invaluable Rights of the Freemen of Maryland.
On reading whereof the Question was put that the House do
assent to the same?
Resolved in the Affirmative

For the Affirmative

Buchanan,

Richardson,

Thomas,

Ringgold,

Moale,

Chamberlaine,

Johnson,

Risteau,

T. Wright,

Chase,

Deye,

So. Wright,

Mackall,

Ward,

Earle,

Weems,

Beall,

Luckett,

Grahame,

Tyler,

Wootton,

Smallwood,

Contee,

Beatty,

Harrison,

Hall,

Hagar.

Ware,

Paca,

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Adams,

Tilghman,

For the Negative

Gresham,

Hammond,

Baxter.

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