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tion without hazarding the disolution of the whole nor Could
wee have Imagined that your House would have fallen on any
such measures as should give the Least Umbrage of Dis-
courageing our faith full Services to his Lordshipp for the
evil or good of the Inhabitants of this Province either by
denyeing us such reasonable and Customary Allowances
as barely defray the Charge of Leaveing our ffamilys for the
Service of the Publick or by any Other means whatsoever.
But supposeing that you had some Reasons for this Inno-
vation and that your House should be of Oppinion that the
Lord Proprietary ought to Defray the Charge and Attendance
of his Councill of State out of his Publick revenue yet you
will give us Leave to put you in mind that the whole of the
Revenue ariseing by Act of Assembly is Intirely Applyed to
the uses therein mentioned and to no other Uses whatsoever
and Leaves no Room as wee Conceive for your House to
Expect that our Allowances should be paid out of that Rev-
enue, unless some further provision had been made for the
better Enabling his Lordship, in the Support of such Charges
as necessarily Attends the Dispatch of the publick Business,
wherein wee, who are of his Lordships Councill conceive
that wee have the Common Weal of this province as much
at heart and as much under our Care, as when we are Called
to Act in Conjunction with your House, in the Makeing of
such wholesome and beneficiall Laws as seem most neces-
sary for the Good Government thereof.
But notwithstanding that this unexpected Stop might
Justly Alarm the Members of his Lordships Councill and
give Umbrage of Suspicion that the Representatives of this
province have so mean an oppinion of the persons whom his
Lordship has made Choice of to Advise his Lieu^t Governour
in all Emergencies of State, as to believe that they do not
Deserve the same publick Acknowledgements as formerly,
yet we are willing to Search out Other Reasons for this Altera-
tion and have a Dependance that the Justice of your House
which Shines upon other Occasions, will Convince us that the
Directions given to the Committee of Accounts, proceeded

L. H. J.

rather from some hasty Resolve (which when reassumed and
Scrutinized, will have no place with you) than from any
fixt Resolution of your House to deny upon any Terms the
Customary Allowances made to the Members of this House
when they Act as a Councill of State for [the] publick good.
Signd p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl. Up. ho.

A Bill to punish Blasphemers Swearers Drunkards and
Sabath breakers was read the first and second times by Es-

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