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<p n="697">Fees called Deputys or Clerks Fees together with 20th for Office Rent, Coals, Candles and<lb></lb>
Laundress (which he before found for his former Deputies) and £7. or £:8 for Stationary &<lb></lb>
and Twelve Guineas for the Estreat besides other annual Expences (all which was little<lb></lb>
enough) And now on Mr. Butler's Accession Mr. Jefferson receives the Deputies Fees or Clerks<lb></lb>
£:200 for Salary but has no Allowance for office Rent Fire Candle and Stationary so<lb></lb>
that all Things considered' tis so for from double Mr. Waller's Allowance that' tis not<lb></lb>
possibly not £:10 more And yet is as much as Jefferson himself desired of Mr Butler<lb></lb>
Besides had it not been expedient to have the Office supplied with a Deputy who<lb></lb>
had been conversant in the Duties and with the Justices Inclinations as well as<lb></lb>
Mr. Butlers Jefferson would have rested contented without the Place having<lb></lb>
sufficiently experiene'd the Toil and Vexation of it.</p>
<p n="698">Waiving the foregoing Objections Mr. Jefferson to shew his Obedience to<lb></lb>
the Court's Injunction immediately set about this difficult Task (tho' pressed must<lb></lb>
with different Avocations & the unadvoidable Attendance at a Session comenceing<lb></lb>
immediately after the Order of Court) and together with his Clerks at no small Expen<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Extracted all the Times and Recognizances to the Number of 7 or 800 from the seven<lb></lb>
Books and drew out an Estreat large in the doing of wch they found other Books and<lb></lb>
Files in Mr. Waller's Possn were still wanting to furnish the Particulars of the Fines<lb></lb>
as well as Recognizances; particularly the Books of Janry Febry April time<lb></lb>
and September 1769, The Recognizances stending open as Forfeited in subseque<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
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,<lb></lb>
on some of the former Files particularly June 1769 which as been very much<lb></lb>
wanted.</p>
<p n="699">Under this Difficulty Mr. Jefferson on the 2d. July waited upon Baron Person<lb></lb>
at his Chambers with the P<obscured></obscured>
aration he had made (having had leave from the Court<lb></lb>
to Apply as might<obscured></obscured>
) and was advised to attend the Barons the next<lb></lb>
morning<obscured></obscured>
Mr. befo<obscured></obscured>
Curts at<obscured></obscured>
was refer'd to all<obscured></obscured>
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