The committee of both Houses, appointed to consider the "propriety of establishing, by law, salaries for judges and registers of probate;" who were also instructed "to consider the expediency of altering and changing the rate of fees now provided by law, for said officers;" and also "to prepare and report a bill, establishing a uniform mode of proceeding in the probate courts, in the several counties in this commonwealth, and prescribing fees for the judges and registers of probate," have had these subjects under their consideration [electronic resource].