110 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 4, 1724.

L. H. J.

To make the Chimney at the Gable End tight and work-
manlike
To Shift all the bad plank in the weather boarding

Resolved that M^r Harrison be allow'd One hundred pounds
Current money and that the Comittee of Accounts allow the
same and that the remaining Ten pounds be lodged in the
Treasurers hands for the use of the said Harrison to be paid
when the work is finished according to the Judgment of
Benja. Tasker and John Beale Esq^rs and the money then to be
paid by their order.
Coll Young from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker the
following Message Viz :

By the Upper house of Assembly
October the 16^th 1724

p. 142

Gentlemen.
The Governour at the Close of the last Sessions of Assembly,
haveing represented to you how Ungratefull a thing it must
needs be to our Lord Proprietary after having given up his
own private Interest, Upon .Sundry publick occasions, for the
service and Benefit of this Province to find his Lower House
of Assembly Endeavouring to Load the Revenue with the
Unusuall. Charge of maintaining his Councill of State, whose
Deliberate Advice upon all Emergencies is well known to be
Absolutely necessary to the publick Weall of this Province,
Wee hope therefore that a reproach so tenderly handed to you
may have so good an Effect upon the members of your House,
as to Convince you of the unreasonableness of denying the
usuall allowances to the Councill which we take to be a neces-
sary and very usefull part of the Administration Notwith-
standing that you refus'd to make such Allowances the Last
Session of Assembly when his Lo^pps unbounded Generosity
and good Will to this pvince Together with the publick Con-
veniency of a Councill of State as well for the Ease as the
security of the good people might not possibly have been so
duly Considered as the nature of the thing seem'd to require,
for which reasons we then postpon'd our further Claims to
this psent Sessions, in hopes you will now agree to those Al-
lowances which we take to be the Just Right of the Councill
for Attending upon all such publick Occasions as the Publick
weall of this Province should make their Advice Necessary
in to the Governour thereof all which seems to have been
Specially Considered by the whole Legislature when they
resolv'd that One hundred and fifty pounds of Tobacco p
Diem should be paid to Every Member of the Councill for