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

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by M^r Tyler and five more, you have Acknowledged to have
been both reasonable and Customary, and Consequently Just

now, seeing that no Intervening Incident hath obstructed the

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Course of [Justice; which hath still the same free Passage]
as it had before the Acts of 1692 and 1699 were determined,
and that we are now upon the same good Foundation which the
former Councill 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, Gentlemen, to Interupt 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 against the prudence and Circumspection of
the Lower House of Assembly which for so many years since
the Expiring of the Act [of] 1699 have Expended Vast Sums
of the Countrys money without haveing so much as a reason-
able Custom to Support it But waveing that,
You say that because the Acts of 1692 and 1699 had Ap-
plyed the whole Revenue to the Support of the Governours of
those Times, It was thought reasonable to make the proper
Allowances to the Councill out of the publick: and the reason
which you Assign for it is this, that there was no other pro-
vision made for them, the Conclusion is so very Just and
Clear that it Leaves no room for Objection, we must therefore
Acquiesce with you and now more than ever hope the premises
being the same and the same reasons still Subsisting (viz)
no other provision made for the Councill, that we shall have
the same Justice done us now, as has been heretofore practis'd
in former Assemblys by paying us out of the publick.
This being the true State of the Case, We begg of you Gent
to Consider the great Charge you are now running the Coun-
try to by expending their money in Multiplying unnecessary
and Ill grounded Debates about the Councills Claims which
you your selves Acknowledge, even in the Like Case to be
reasonable Allowances tho made but a few years agoe
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 Councill's
Allowances, unless his L^pp be graciously pleas'd to Apply
some part of the Revenue that way. If so, it is very well; we
shall be paid. But if his L^pp refuse what then? Why then
you Confess there being no Restraint in the Act upon his
Lordship or other Obligation upon him to make any Allow-
ances to his Councill, that we must go without any Allow-
ance at all. Are we not then, upon your own principles Gent,
reduced to the same Circumstances with the Councill of for-