38 Assembly Proceedings, May 29- June 8, 1717.

U. H. J.

part thereof was purely raised for the support of Government
without any other Consideration
We find by the Law made in 1670 the only Consideration
for raising the two shill p hh^d was that of supporting Govern-
ment so necessary to all Comunities, and the application in lieu
of the rents is only made by way of p viso in that Law And
nothing appears in any the latter Acts that can be reasonably
understood to raise the two shillings merely in Consideracon
of the easy payment of the rents & fines And if It shou'd be
now suggested by the Act as pposed that the Easy paym^t of
the rents &c. is our only Inducement to raise that Sum it might
be fairly Suggested we are unjust Stewards to the Country in
raising so much in lieu of the Rents beyond their Value And
a People unworthy to reap the benefitts of Government by
raising nothing to it's Support, And since we are Apprehensive
the Proposalls sent us might admitt of such Constructions we
Cannot Consent to the Alterations any Other ways than as it
now stands, And pray your Hon^rs Assent thereto
Signed p order Mic: Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

Resolved it pass, therefore so Endorsed and sent to the
Lower house p Col Holland & Col Coursey

p, 60

His Excellency laid before this house the nineth Article of
their Lordship's Instructions to him
Thereupon Resolved the following message be sent to the
Lower house Viz.

By the Uper house of Assembly, June 7^th 1717

Gent. His Excellency having Comunicated to this house
the following Article of the Lord Propry Instructions to him.
We referr it to the Consideration of your house Viz.
Whereas eight p Cent without our Privity or Knowledge
has been deducted out of the Eighteen pence p hogshead And
as it were against our Consent when the Condition on which
we declared to you that we were willing to agree to the Law
made in our ever honoured Father's life time was provisionally
that the mony given by the new intended Law shoud be made
payable to ourselves and nothing being at all then or therein
mentioned of a Deduction for the Naval Officers for their
Collecting thereof And we having ready Officers of our own
Whose Sallarys for that year we must pay and Who was
suffered to Collect the Tunage of Ships only we think it Just
& Equitable that the said Eight p Cent be made good to us and
Cannot think it either becomes the Naval Officers or any body
for them to be their own Carvers but that they ought to leave