Fees called Deputys or Clerks Fees together with 20th for Office Rent, Coals, Candles and
Laundress (which he before found for his former Deputies) and £7. or £:8 for Stationary &
and Twelve Guineas for the Estreat besides other annual Expences (all which was little
enough) And now on Mr. Butler's Accession Mr. Jefferson receives the Deputies Fees or Clerks
£:200 for Salary but has no Allowance for office Rent Fire Candle and Stationary so
that all Things considered' tis so for from double Mr. Waller's Allowance that' tis not
possibly not £:10 more And yet is as much as Jefferson himself desired of Mr Butler
Besides had it not been expedient to have the Office supplied with a Deputy who
had been conversant in the Duties and with the Justices Inclinations as well as
Mr. Butlers Jefferson would have rested contented without the Place having
sufficiently experiene'd the Toil and Vexation of it.

Waiving the foregoing Objections Mr. Jefferson to shew his Obedience to
the Court's Injunction immediately set about this difficult Task (tho' pressed must
with different Avocations & the unadvoidable Attendance at a Session comenceing
immediately after the Order of Court) and together with his Clerks at no small Expen [..]
Extracted all the Times and Recognizances to the Number of 7 or 800 from the seven
Books and drew out an Estreat large in the doing of wch they found other Books and
Files in Mr. Waller's Possn were still wanting to furnish the Particulars of the Fines
as well as Recognizances; particularly the Books of Janry Febry April time
and September 1769, The Recognizances stending open as Forfeited in subseque [..]
Books having been Originally Entred into in some or other of there former Books and some of the Fines set in the Sessions of this Period being upon Indictmts,
on some of the former Files particularly June 1769 which as been very much
wanted.

Under this Difficulty Mr. Jefferson on the 2d. July waited upon Baron Person
at his Chambers with the P [..] aration he had made (having had leave from the Court
to Apply as might [..] ) and was advised to attend the Barons the next
morning [..] Mr. befo [..] Curts at [..] was refer'd to all [..]
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