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than to harbour any thoughts that you can be of opinion that
if any officer be once thought necessary and appointed It makes
that office perpetual and when found to be of no use the
Officer cannot be removed as to the latter we never had the
least Notion that they not giving Security is any of our omis-
sion Neither do we believe that the bare naming of those
Officers in any Act of Assembly is such a Confirmation to
make the Officer perpetual and that the Naval Officers for
that reason cannot be ordered otherwise to pay the mony
but desire your Honours maturely to consider the ill conse-
quences of such Construction, for by that if an officer be once
appointed It will be accounted perpetual. We charge not
your Honours with giving any Commands to the Treasurers
for paying any mony without the Concurrence of this House
And as to the Treasurer being a member of your House We
believe he is not thereby made the less Serviceable to the
Country but think it to be very inconvenient he should be so,
so far that thereby He thinks himself above answering before
us, & that poor people are thereby under some apprehension
of his Grandeur and have not the same Access to him as if he
was not a member of your Board neither has it ever been so

U. H. J.

as we know of till the present Treasurer of the Western
Shore's Time. We never pretended that the absolute Authority
of appointing Treasurers was in us without your honble Con-
currence Well knowing your Honours to be both a good and
useful part of the Legislative power of this Province; But we
believe your Honours and this House without the Consent of
a Governour can appoint either or discharge such Officers and
think no Time better than now and have resolved upon the
Question that the present Treasurers be discharged and upon
our recommending others and your Honours Concurrence that
they give such Security as shall be approved of by your
Honours & this House to answer the Country in Case of the
Treasurers Death or Insolvency and that a particular Clause
be inserted in such Bond that the Treasurers shall pay the
mony according to their directions without exacting any thing
for prompt paym^t which has been an Imposition too frequently
made use of to the Damage of many people and we think
below the Dignity of that Officer
Signed p order R Dallam Cl ho Del.

By the Council in Assembly
November 4^th 1713

We cannot be of your Sentiments either that it should be
very inconvenient a member of this Board should be a publick
Treasurer, or that the Treasurer of the Western Shoar has

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