560 Assembly Proceedings, July 17- Aug 10, 1716.

L. H. J.

By the Lower house of Assembly
Augt 3d 1716.

May It please yr Exncy & Honrs

This house have fully heard Col Edwd Lloyd and his
Council in defence of what he was Charged with by our Mes-
sage of the 26th of July last he was fully acquainted with the
reason of this house's resolve on that occasion and had the
opportunity of hearing sundry members of this house as Evi-
dences agt him who in our Judgmt have fully proved upon
their oaths the facts wee charged him with, wee have fully
considered the sd Col Lloyd's Answer in writeing which you
were pleased to lay before us, and wee find thereby the said
Col Lloyd has denyed that he ever made such allegations
which would have been flatly opposite to the matter of fact,
wee have had it fully proved that such allegations were made
and if flately opposite to the matter of fact hope our charge is
in that part proved wee find he acknowledges that he has
often Declared that his reward for the Services he performed
in that station was a thing precarious, wee Can't find the said
Col Lloyd had any Inducemt to make such declaration had
not it been as a motive to the Countrey to make the allowances
Complained of which he thereby seemed tacitly to acknowl-
edge he had not a better pretence for than by the plausible

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allegations of his other rewards being precarious which it
seems afterwards proved certain and Consequently the Con-
sideration of such allowances Removed.
Wee doe not find the said Col Lloyd in any part of his
answer or Defence insists att all upon the Justice or reason-
ableness of those allowances but insists Chiefly on his right
by the Laws of this Province and that such allowances have
been made and ought not now to be recall'd Wee take Cus-
tome and the Legislature to be the Best interpreters of the
laws and wee find by the ancient Acts where Councellors had
offices of Profile, they had no allowances for their attendance
in Council and it is fresh in the memory of Sundry members
of This house that even where the act of Assembly ascertained
to every Councillor one hundred and fifty pounds of Tobo p
day yet the Comissaryes Generall being of the Council have
been refused such allowance for that the pquisites of their
offices were thought Sufficient to defray their Expences and
that the very ground and reason of the Law that gave such
allowances was only to bear the expences of those who had no
other way to reimburse themselves their expences in the Ser-
vice of the Publick wee cann't allow the conclusions that Col
Lloyd makes from the superscriptions of his Letters which
rather seem designed to find out the person by the Synonimous