578 Assembly Proceedings, September 23-October 26, 1723.

U. H. J.

Expences of Government Among which Exigences and neces-
sary Expences of Government the Sallaries of his Ldp's Privy
Council are enumerated. But after the Revolution and that
his Majesty King William the third had taken the Governm^t
of this Province into his own Possession Lionel Copley Esq^r
was Appointed Governor thereof. That Gentleman conven'd
a General Assembly at Saint Mary's upon the 10^th day of May
1692 at which Session among other things an Imposition of
4^d p Gallon was laid upon Liquors Imported and part of the
Impost arising therein applied to the Support of the Council
of State.

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Thus Gentlemen we find the case stand upon the Journals
of those Times & that the Councelors were p^d their Allowances
out of that Impost Duty of 4^d p Gallon, 9^d of the Impost of
12^d p hhd being p^d to the Govern^t and the Remaining 3^d Appro-
priated for Arms &c^a for the Country's use; so that the Coun-
cellors had no place of Resort but in the Country, who made
provision for them by the Act Af^d But that Act as we find it,
also was repealed, within two years Time & one other Act
made at a Session held at S^t Mary's Sept^r the 21^st 1694 where-
by the same Impost of 4^d p Gallon upon Liquors, was still
Continued to the Uses in the same expressed (viz) for the
Building and repairing Court Houses Free Schools and such
publick Services.
And Altho' those words, such publick Services may Admit
of various Constructions, yet the sense of the Legislature of
that Time, is altogether in our favour they made the Act thus
and they were the best Acquainted with the Intention of it,
and as if the Councelors Salaries had been expressly men-
tioned among those other Publick Services, they paid them off
duely out of the Revenue arising from that Act; untill the
Time that 150 P^ds of Tobacco was Assigned them in Lieu of
their Sallarys at 30 £ Sterl p Annum, as appears more fully
by a loose sheet of the Journal of the Lower House Page 45,
whereon it appears that the Councelors were p^d their Sallaries
pursuant to that Act the Latter End of the Year 1694 The like
paym^ts Appear upon the Journal of 1695 and more particularly
Expressed to be paid according to Act of Assembly in 1696.

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We must tell you likewise, thatwe think Ourselves very much

wrong'd in the charge of Insinuating Things that might lead

you into wrong notions of the Acts; for there being no other
Fund for the Payment of the Councelors Salaries than the
Impost Act of 4^d p Gallon laid in 1692 the Legislature took
care upon the Repeal of the Act, to include those Salaries in
the Impost Act of 1694, as it is very Evidently made out to
you already by the sundry payments Annually made to them