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Which being read this house Concurrs therewith and
Thereupon the following Message is prepared viz :
By the Lower House of Assembly
October the 19th 1723.
May it please Your Honours
We Concurr with Your Honours in your Message this Day
by Mr Tasker relateing to the free school money.
Signd p order M. Jenifer Cl Lo. Ho.
Which was sent to the Upper House by Mr Hawkins and
Mr Travers. They return and Say they Delivered it.
Colo Holland and Colo Young from the Upper House De-
liver Mr Speaker the following viz :
By the Upper House of Assembly
Octobr the 19th 1723
Gentlemen.
Upon reading your Message this day by Mr Hill and five
more we find you are still Resolved not to Allow us any thing
for our Attendance as a Councill of State; but since our Last
Message to you on searching more Carefully into our former
Records of Laws, we find another Act of Assembly made in
the year 1692 for Laying a Duty of four pence p Gallon on
Liquors which Act Expressly provides that the Councill shall
have an Allowance Out of that Duty, and as that Duty has
been Continued ever since Only with the Abatement of one
penny p Gallon, and is still Applyed to the Defraying the pub-
lick Charge as it was then, Only Differing in that it does
not Expressly mention the Councill which we Conceive to be
omitted because it was properly a publick Charge and there-
fore thought to be Sufficiently Exprest under that Generall
Term; and as we Take the Reason of the Councill's Allow-
ance being made in Tobacco to be Derived from this Law,
either because the Councill rather Chose to have their Allow-
ances in Tob. than Money, or else that the Country rather
Chose to make their Allowances in Tobacco, and reserve the
money for some more particular Occasion Therefore since you
Refuse to make us An Allowance as heretofore in the Publick,
we Insist upon haveing it out of [the] three pence p Gallon
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