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gerous and vnpresidentiall Opinion; And if hee should Com-
ply with yo^r Request that the said Impositions might noe more
be demanded received nor exacted he should be Guilty to
dispencing with the s^d ffive Lawes. & as for what money he
hopes hath not been disposed of any other waies then as the
said Lawes direct; but if himselfe or any other hath done it,
he hopes that you pretending to bee Saving Patriotts will
make it Legally to Appear. As for yo^r Conceptions of March
the 30^th that if yo^r Excell^cy will not Redress yo^r Grievances in
the way Represented he will not redress th^m at all, Hee thinks
to be Somewhat Arbitrary & Illegall & if you Can Accuse
him of this or any other Matter or thing hee expects you will
doe it before his most Sacred Maj^tie or before the R^t Hon^ble
the Lords Commission^rs for Trade & fforreigne plantations &
it would be a very greate Crime in the Least to doubt but
that all R^t & Iustice will be done to both parties.

Original
Journal.

April the I^st 1698.

The Councill againe Sate & were present as yesterday
The Committee of Acco^ts bring vp their Journall of Allow-
ances w^ch was perused & read.
It is remarqued that the Dellegates Living on the Eastern
Shoare have Allowance made them for Boats & hands but his
Maj^ties Councello^rs Vnd^r the same Circumstances have noe
such allowance Neither are their Itinerant Charges Considered
Equally w^th the Dellegates.
Quere Why Mainhursts Acco^t was struck out
Quere why M^r Sewel was not allowed as wel as the other
Minist^r
His Excell^cy does not vnderstand that any of the Members
boyes should bee admitted to officiate as Clerks His Excell^cy
wants to See vpon what acco' M^r William Taylard & M^r
Benjamin Hall are allowed for their Protested Bills.
Brought by the house by Majo^r Ennalls & ffive of their
Members the ffollowing Messages & Originall Bills sent for.
Viz^t

By the House of Dellegates April the first 1698.

This house humbly desire that whereas there is 347^l 03^s o6^d
Already in Bank besides what is in M^r Masons hands Vnac-
counted for the Gen^tn appointed to apportion the publick
Levy this year may bee Impowered to dispose of the same or
at Least three p^ts thereof for defraying the Charge of this
Present Sessions & noe other vse And th^t the public Treasurer
may bee obliged to produce th^r Acco^ts to the s^d Committee of

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