The Lower House. 97

forthwith serve the abovenamed John Frederick Augustus Priggs,
Theophilus Hanson, and Arnold Elzey with a Copy of the said
Order

Ordered, That the Order of the Day for taking into Considera-
tion the Petition of Robert Dick and others, which was referred
from last Session to this Day, be read; and it was read accordingly.

Ordered, That the same be taken into Consideration on Tuesday
the 15.^th Instant.

M.^r Beall from the Committee of Grievances and Courts of
Justice brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker the following Report,
Order, and Letter.

By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice
October 10.^th 1771
Your Committee humbly beg Leave to report to the Honourable
House that the ffees of several of the Officers and Ministers of
this Province their deputed Ministers and Servants are in them-
selves as now paid excessive great and oppressive to the Subject;
and that the said ffees are under no Regulation of any Law of
this Province. That your Committee were informed that several
Officers do charge and receive ffees for Services performed by
them in their respective Offices under and by Virtue of some
Proclamation issued and published in the Name of his Excellency
as Lieutenant General and Chief Governor of this Province and
in Consequence of the said Information made the Order, a Copy
whereof is hereunto annexed; and received from M.^r U Scott,
Clerk of his Lordship's honble Council of State his Answer also
hereunto annexed; and submit the same to the Consideration of
the Honble House.
Signed by Order W.^m Wright Cl.

By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice
October 7^th 1771
Ordered, That the Clerk of the Council make out and deliver to
the said Committee a Copy of the Records or Minutes of the
Council of all Orders and Proceedings of his Lordship's Honble
Council of State made since the last Session of Assembly relative
to the Fees of all or any of the Officers in this Province
Signed by Order W.^m Wright Cl
Gentlemen,

Your Order "that the Clerk of the Council make out and deliver
to the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice, a Copy
of the Records or Minutes of the Council of all Orders and Pro-
ceedings of his Lordship's Honble Council of State, made since
the last Session of Assembly relative to the ffees of all or any of
the Officers in this Province" was delivered to me. As I apprehend

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 10