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recovery of the fees. Again, Is there any Island or Settle-
ment belonging to the King, where the Laws have not placed
the same guard upon, and taken the same Security from this
Office, and are not all the requisites in every one of them per-
formed by Deputys, they take the Oaths, give the Security,
and are Personally Amenable to every Government: If further
Satisfaction be wanting, Respondeat Superior, and therefore
the Principal has the Precaution to take a previous secu-
rity for the Protection and Indemnity of his Office. My Expe-
rience, which was first learnt under your Brother, and since
Conf^d by my own practice, has given me some Insight into
this business, & I have drawn many a score of these
Bonds and Deputations in my time, and in all the Appeals
and Parliamentary applications I was ever concerned in, I do
not remember to have seen a Transcript from America, which
was not Attested by the Deputy Secretary, nor do I remember
a Deputation ever to have been given by the Gov^r Except
upon a death to prevent a Stoppage of Justice, till a new
Appointment can be transmitted: but I know of many Powers
given to Governors, as well as others, by the Principal to
Depute to the Office for him upon a Vacancy, till further
Orders. But I ask your Excellencys Pardon for Entring so
far into this matter. The accompanying Instruction renders
it unnecessary for the present, and his Lordship is desirous in
this particular that M^r Dulany sh^d be Accommodated in his
own way, I have therefore avoided touching upon the Ques-
tion to him, and have only hazarded a few hasty sentiments
for further Consideration, If any future occasion sh^d make it
necessary.
The Salary your Excellency will remember was not my
Proposal originally, I found it without Objection and repeated
it as I found it. The value never Entred into my Considera-
tion, nor did I Look after or Countenance Offers for advanc-
ing it. Indeed his Lordship took it into his own hands, M^r
Dulany was of his own Nomination, as were the terms, because
he thought them agreable to him. What his Ldship will do,
now he finds it otherwise, must be referred to his own Discre-
tion and generosity, for he has made it his own concern, to
me he has promised it shall make no difference, at the same
time directing me to enquire of your Excellency where any
burthen proposed to be taken from this Office can be more
properly placed.
It was with concern I Perceived the confusion and distress
of the Province at the time your Excellency wrote. The Scene
is now happily Changed, and the past troubles will only serve
to heighthen their present sensations of Joy: If the other Pro-
vinces sh^d come before the Throne with their Thanksgivings