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be Laid to their Charge, or of framing a Counter Representa-
tion, to Introduce at least the Proceedings about the Lottery,
and at the Secretarys Office. I do not see that I want any
further Authority than what is contained in the minit of the
Council, nor any further Instructions than what the Gentlemen
are already preparing, nor will there be any Occasion for
money till some Proceeding is had, of which I shall immedi-
ately Apprize your Excellency, and then the Gentlemen, will,
If they please, give me Credit as far as Two hundred Pounds
or Three hundred Pounds to be made use of when wanted.
The Expence of the Retainers, the only one hitherto
incurred, his Lordship has Insisted upon repaying me. The
Powers assumed by the Lower House are contrary to all usage
of Parliament, Except at a time when the whole Parliament
consisted of one House only. Nor did their Committee even
in those times Claim an Active Authority during the Adjourn-
ment of the House. Nor is there an Instance in the Journals
of either House of their sending Committees to Examine
Records in the Council or other State Offices, but they
address the Crown, and that chiefly in revenue Matters, and
what is proper is Granted them, and your Excellency well
knows that what is thus Granted them is always paid for to
the Patentee by the Crown who are Invested with a large
Civil List (and even by Extraordinary allowances to their own
immediate offices ; much less did either House of Parliament

ever Call for the production of Original Books or Records

from any office (unless for the Record of the Return upon an
Election in order to amend it or on suspicion of Alteration or
the like) and the proper Officer attended with it, so that in
reality it is never taken out of his Custody.
M^r William Hunt who was Joint Trustee with M^r Capel
Hanbury for the Affairs relative to the Paper Currency being
Dead, The latter has recommended M^r Osgood Hanbury his
Partner to be Joyned in the Trust with him, with an Intima-
tion that the Amount of the Commission for transacting the
business is not large, and that he and his late Partner have
received no more than £397 9 4 from it in all since 28^th April
1750. His Lordship was unwilling to Exercise his Power of
Appointment, If it be Vested in him, without knowing your
Excellency's sentiments, whether it will be agreable to you or
you think it will be so to the Province, the rather as the
uniting the Partner seems to confine the Execution of the
Trust to one Person only, & without thinking of any other
Person from himself, he has permitted M^r Capel Hanbury to
Act alone till he hears from the Province, and will then be
glad to adopt the Person they Propose, or at least whom they
approve.