160 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1703.

         Lib. X.  upon receipt whereof the Council were summoned & upon due

                  regard had to & consideration of your Lordships desire that

                  we should transmit the three hundred pounds voted by our

                  Assembly for the Assembly for the Assistance of New York to

                  your Lordship by Bills of Exco though for our selves we were

                  willing & shall upon all Occasions be ready to Convince your

                  Lordship of the Due respect we have as well to her Majstys

                  Service as of your Lordships person & noble Character yet

                  Beg Leave to acquaint your Lordship that this Province havg

                  formerly been at great Charge on the like occasion of remit

                  ting moneys to your Government our Assembly have resolved

                  that the money voted should be paid by the Treasurers to

                  Such person as should be sent from your Government who

                  might give a Receipt therefore which by our former Letter

                  we intimated to your Lordship and assure you that when your

                  Lordship shall be pleased to send for the same it will be

                  readily paid to your Lordships Order for the Assistance of the

                  Majestys Province under your Lordships Government Ac-

          p. 332  cording to his late Majestys Directions and that We are

                                       Your Lordships

                  To his Excellency the          most Obedient humble Servts

                   Lord Cornbury her Majstys     Tho Tench President

                   Governor of the Province      Thomas Brook

                   of New York                   John Hammond

                                                 Edward Lloyd

                                                 Ia Sanders

                   The following Representation of the Clergy of this Province

                  read and referred to the next Assembly

                      To his honour the President and

                              Council Sitting

                  May it please your Honours

                   We the Clergy who have hereunto Subscribed do humbly

                  lay before your Honours the following particulars to be re

                  commended as your Honours shall think fit to the Considera

                  tion of the next Sessions of Assembly

                   1st That Catalogues of Parochial Librarys be taken & sent

                  to the Council

                   2d Whether the Sheriff can by the Letter of the Act of

                  Assembly demand Sallary for collecting and paying the 40 l

                  tob p Poll & from whom

                   3d How necessaries for the Communion ought to be Pro

                  vided & whether according to the Act of Queen Eliza the Church

                  wardens of our respective Parishes are not to take care for the

                  same & how to be raised