488 Assembly Proceedings, September 23-October 26, 1 723.

U. H. J.

the happy Effects you Expect from my Government directed
by the resolutions I have taken to make the Publick Good the
Rule of it
The Subject matter of the Act for Limitation of officers
Fees, has with various opinions taken up much Time and Con-
sideration and least some might think me Partial to my Self,

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because the nameing the Persons Employed in several Offices
of Government is in me, I have been sensibly touch'd about
it, and the more so, since the late Reasons offer'd to induce me
not to dissent thereto, unhappily differ so Avidely from my
own.
I think the Continual Affluence of People will multiply
Business, Care and Hands, as well as enumerate The Officers'
Fees and by your way of Reasoning Gentlemen of the Lower
House, you may as well from Time to Time lessen what they
now Enjoy as you have what they formerly did, nor am I
fully Convinc'd should the fluctuating 'Condition of our
Staple so improve (w^ch God Grant it may) as to Double their
Profits to what the Low State of it has now rendered them
they would not have more than an Ample Compensation for
their Labours altho Constantly resideing among you. But
as it is, and I Conceive very Justly thought necessary that
some Certaine Officers of the State should be supported about
the Person of your Proprietary in Great Brittain in such
manner as to be able Plentifully out of the Profits of their
Offices to gratify such Deputy or Deputies as the Busieness
necessary to be transacted in the Province requires so I Cannot
believe the Limitation of them from what they have been, will
prove in the end, any Great Advantage to the Publick.
Possibly the Fees allow'd in Virginia may not be so much
in Tobacco, as those allowed by us. Yet if I am not misin-
formed the Different matter of Their Tobacco from ours

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makes an Ample Amends; however since you Gentlemen the
Delegates of the People so earnestly desire I would not dis-
sent to the said Act, I have not; trusting that you your selves
will one Day see Cause to revive and alter it.

Gentlemen of the Lower House
I Cannot omitt thanking you for your most obliging Letter,
under the hand of Rob' Ungle Esq^r your very worthy Speaker,
and am pleased with the occasion you thereby give me in this
Publick manner of declaring how acceptable any Thing is to
me, which you Apprehend may prove advantageous to the
Staple of our Countrey.
The great Quantity of bad Tobacco lately given up to be
burnt whereby his Majesty has been so Considerable a Loser