290 Assembly Proceedings, June 25-26, 1702.

Original
Journal.

Ordered by his Excell^cy the Governour & Council that the
said Vestry do apply what Tob^o they have in their Hands be-
longing to the Parish in building a pretty convenient House
and purchasing a Glebe for the Minister & his successors
Came Col Dorsey Major Greenberry Cap^t Draper and M^r
Baker from the House with the following message

By the House of Delegates June 26^th 1702

The Message of this Day by Col John Hammond and other
Gentlemen of the Honble Council relating to the Matter pro-
posed for an Allowance to Col Tho^s Smithson chief Justice of
the Provincial Court was here received and read, and the
house thereupon resolved into a grand Committee to debate
the same The Committee having made choice of Major Wil-
liam Dent their chairman and fully considered & debated the
whole matter in the message contained, and so dissolved ;
M^r Speaker again taking the Chair Major William Dent
reported the resolves of the Committee as follows
1 That the said Col. Smithson is a Person in all respects
Qualified for that office of chief Justice & has deserved not
only in that but in other Matters very well of this Province &
is well worthy of a Consideration for the same
2^dly We never understood that any Country or Province
has payed any Judge or Justices Sallary except defraying their
charges, but such Charges have been always defrayed out of .
his Majesty's Revenue
3 For which causes we cannot think to lay any Burthen on
the publick to raise such Salary as is proposed
To all which this House Concurrs
Signed p order W Taylard Cl Ho Del.

Eodem Die assented to by his Majesty's honble Counl
W Bladen Cl Counl

Sent to the House by Col Lloyd and M^r Sanders

Ordered that George Muschamp Esq^r her Majesty's Re-
ceiver of the District of Potowmack & Pocomoke pay unto
Col John Bigger out of the 3^d p Hh^d for Arms what he dis-
bursed for cleansing mending & fixing the publick Arms in
Calvert County 14 p^ds nine shill.
Ordered that George Muschamp Esq^r Receiver as afs^d pay
unto Charles Kilburn out of the s^d Duty of 3^d p Hh^d six p^ds
for his extraordinary Care and pains in looking after firing &
scaling the Gunns on the Stadt House Hill