The Upper House. 567

your House and ours Cannot Agree to make allowances to
each other it is absolutely necessary that all other publick
Dues should be paid; And for that End we Propose to you
once more that your Allowances and ours being taken out of
the Journal, we shall be willing to Assent to all the other
allowances, by w^ch means all the publick Debts will be paid
If you refuse this, we hope the Blame will be laid on those
who deserve it and we shall be Excused.
Signed p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl Up Ho.

U. H. J.

Sent to the Lower House by John Rousby Esq^r
Adjourned till Monday Morning

Monday October the 21^st 1723
Met according to Adjournment
Present
His Honour the Governour .

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The
honble

Col^oW^m Holland
Col^o Sam^l Young
Col^o Tho^s Addison
Phile: Lloyd Esq^r

CoP Rich^d Tilghman
Col^oM. Til: Ward
Benj. Tasker Esq^r

Members of
the Upper
House of
Assembly.

The Journal of the Gommittee of Acc^ts brought up from the
Lower House by Col Mackal and five others with the follow-
ing Message viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly 8^br the 21^st 1723

May it please Your Hon^rs
We are now we hope come to the close of the Arguments
about the Allowances your Hon^rs Claim as a Council of State ;
and as those Allowances Ought to be founded on some Law
or a Just and Reasonable Custom, and there being no Law
now in force, nor Custom that has any Reasonable foundation
that we know of, we Cannot recede from our former Resolu-
tions, nor Agree to put our own Allowances which are founded
on a Law in Force upon the same Foot with that which has
none to Support it. And if it be your Hon^rs Resolutions not to
Assent to Our Allowances which you are Convinced (as we
doubt not) are Just and Reasonable and have a Law in Force

to Support them, for no other Cause but that we will not Assent
to your Hon^rs Claims, which we have given you our Reasons
for, we shall only declare that your Hon^rs make such use of
your Power in this Case, as we hope this House never will of
theirs.

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