The House again considered the Resolve for establishing Fees for the Courts of Admiralty.

It was moved, that the Vote of Yesterday for allowing the Judges Twenty Shillings per Day for sitting on Trial, be reconsidered.

After Debate thereon the Question was put, and it passed in the Negative.

Then the House passed the following Resolves, viz.

Resolved, That the Fees to be hereafter demanded and received in the Courts of (A.) "Admiralty," within this Colony, shall be as follows, viz.

To the Constables, for warning a Town-Meeting, and drawing Jury-Men, Two Shillings.

For summoning each Juror or Witness, Six Pence.

To the Sheriff or Constable, for every Mile's Travel from the Place of Abode to the Place of Trial in making a Return of Warrant or Summons, Two Pence.

To each Juror or Witness for every Mile's Travel from the Place of his Abode to the Place of Trial, Two Pence.

To every Witness for Attendance per Day, Two Shillings and Eight Pence.

For the Attendance of the Forman of the Jury in each Cause per Day, Four Shillings and Six Pence.

For the Attendance of each of the other Jurors per Day, Four Shillings.

For the Clerk's Attendance each Day, Five Shillings.

For the Sheriff or Constable's Attendance each, per Day, Four Shillings.

To the Clerk for recording the Proceedings of the Court, for every Page containing Twenty-four Lines, of Eight Words in a Line, Six Pence.

For taxing the Bill, Five Shillings.

For all attested Copies Six Pence per Page as above.

To the Sheriff for selling a Vessel and Cargo, &c. paying out the Proceeds to the Captors, and the Fees to the Colony Treasurer, Three Pence on the Pound, or One and a Quarter per Cent.

To the Judge for receiving Information, Six Shillings.

For every Warrant, Five Skillings.

For his Travel from Home to the Place of Trial for every Ten Miles, Five Shillings.

For every Day's sitting on Trial, One Pound.

For notifying, or advertising, exclusive of the Expence to the Printers, Eight Shillings.

For every Summons for One or more Witnesses, Six Pence.

Afternoon.

John Whitcomb, Esq; brought down a Petition of Robert Robbins, praying that the Court would Order a Quantity of Provisions taken with his Schooner and carried into Beverly, on the 8th of November last, to be delivered to him, for Reasons therein set forth, with the following Vote of Council thereon, viz.

In Council, January 25, 1776.

Read and committed to Benjamin Lincoln, Esq; with such as the Hon. House shall join.

Read and non-concurr'd, and Ordered That the Petition be dismissed. ²

Charles Chauncy Esq; brought down the Resolve for establishing Fees for the Courts of Admiralty, with the following Vote of Council thereon, viz.

In Council, January 25, 1776.

Read and concurr'd with the Amendment at A. viz. at Adele "Admiralty" and insert ["]Courts of Justice for the Trial of the Captures of Vessels."

Read and concurr'd.