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

U. H. J.

Between the two Houses and do Assure you likewise that we
are so far from designing to divert you from the Country's
Busieness, that we shall very readily Embrace every Oppor-
tunity which you shall lay before us of Acting for a Publick
Good in Compensation of the very Great Expences, w^ch the
Country is now put to by yo^r refusing to make those Allow-
ances w^ch in your own Message of this Day by M^r Tyler and
five more you have Acknowledged to be both reasonable and
Customary, and Consequently very Just now seeing that no
Intervening Incident hath Obstructed the Course of Justice ;
which hath still the same free Passage as it had before the
Acts of 1692 & 1699 were determined and that we are now
upon the same good foundation which the former Council
stood upon, when their wages, as you Call it, were paid and
Allowed by the Country to be both Reasonable and Customary.
We are not willing, Gentl; to interrupt the Course of the
Debate, otherwise we might tell you, that such a Resolve as
your Message seems to be Grounded upon, Draws a very
heavy Charge ag' the prudence & Circumspection of the Lower
House of Assembly which for so many years as since the Ex-
piring of the Act of 1699 have Expended vast sums of the
Country's money without having as much as a reasonable
Custom to Support it. But waving that,

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You say that because the Acts of 1692 & 1699 had applied
the whole Revenue to the Support of the Governours of Those
Times, it was thought Reasonable to make the proper Allow-
ances to the Council out of the Publick and the Reason which
you Assign for it is this, that there was no other Provision
made for them The Conclusion is so very Just and clear
that it leaves no Room for objection; we must therefore ac-
quiesce with you; and now more than ever hope the Premises
being the same, and the same Reason still Subsisting viz. no
other Provision made for the Council, that we shall have the
same Justice done to us now, as was heretofore Practised in
former Assemblies, by paying us out of the Publick.
This being the true State of the Case, we beg of you Gentle-
men, to Consider the great Charge you are now running the
Country to by expending their Money in Multiplying Un-
necessary and ill Grounded Debates about the Councils Claims
w^ch you yourselves acknowledge, even in the like Case, to
have been reasonable Allowances, tho made but a few Years
ago.
For as to the Act mentioned in your Message for Settling
the Revenue and now in force, it doth not leave any Room
nor is there any provision made therein for the Council's
Allowances Unless his Ldp be graciously pleased to Apply