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we have so great a Regard to Justice that we should never
have Insisted on them, neither have we ever yet Refused Con-
senting to your Allowances as you seem to intimate in yo^r
Message, But only proposed, that if you would Consent to for-
bear your Allowances we would do the same by ours, and so
put an End for the present to the Contest about them and we
wish we may not have more reason to Declare against your
House for making an Ill Use of your Power, then you have
Against Ours. To Conclude we take the Liberty Once more to
Recomend to your Consideration the Act of Assembly made

U. H. J.

in 1692 for laying an Imposition upon Liquors w^ch particularly
provides for the Support of the Council; which Act has been
Reenacted and Continued from that Time to this and thereby
Our Claim in money Supported in Law, and to inform yo^r
House how that Allowance Came to be Changed into Tobacco,
we desire you will Look into the Journal of your House in
May 1697 herewith sent, where you will find a Positive Re-
solve made by the Lower House of Assembly in the following
words (Viz.) It being referred from the Last to this present
Session of Assembly, whether an Annual Salary of 30 P^ds
Sterl p Annum shall be setled upon his Majesty's Honble
Council instead of the 150 P^ds Tobacco p Diem Resolved by
the House that such their Allowance in Tob is already well
Settled; w^ch Allowance has been Ever since accordingly
paid and this we take to be a Custom Grounded upon
Justice and good Reason, or else that Assembly, and all
the Succeeding Assemblies, nay even this present Assembly,
till this Session, have acted very unreasonably, w^ch we believe
you will not Assert. And now, we hope (as you say in your
Message) that we are come to the Close of the Arguments
about our Allowances, and that you will no Longer Deny us,
what by Law, The Resolves of former Assemblies, and as
much Justice as that of the Labourers being worthy of his
Hire, becomes our Due.
Signed p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl Up Ho.

Sent with the Journal of the Lower House for the Year
1697 by Col^o Holland Col^o Young and Col^o Addison.

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A Message from the Lower House by M^r Crab and five
others viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly 8^br the 22^d 1723

May it please Your Hon^rs
We are sorry your Hon^rs have Come to no better Con-
clusion on Considering our last Message of the 21^st Instant
about the Allowances We hoped such Consideration might

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