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

U. H. J.

Sent by M^r Tasker

A message from the Lower House by M^r Tyler & Captain
Hooper viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly Oct. 16^th 1724
May it please your Honours.
We are informed by our Committee of Accounts that the
Public is Charged with Commissions for each Assize to the
same Judges which this Year we are willing to Allow; But
forasmuch as We presume the Charge may be saved to the
publick by Granting Commissions to be in force so long as
the same Judges are continued, We desire your Honours will
be Pleased to Recommend the same to his Honour the Gov-
ernour that the charge for the future may be lessened in that
part.
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

The House taking into their consideration the Subject of
their Allowances as a Council of State and with what Un-
reasonableness and Heat the Payment of them was refused
by the Lower House last Session and that they had not quitted
their Claim but let it fall at that time to avoid contention

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Resolved to prepare a Message thereon and the following
Message was prepared and Agreed to by the House viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October 16^th 1724
Gentlemen.
The Governor at the close of the last Session of Assembly
having Represented to you how ungrateful 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
Unusual Charge of maintaining his Council of State whose
deliberate Advice upon all Emergencies is well known to be
absolutely necessary to the publick Weal of this Province
We hope therefore that a Reproach so tenderly handed to you
may have had so Good an Effect upon the members of your
House as to convince you of the Unreasonableness of denying
the Usual Allowances to the Council which we take to be
a necessary and Useful part of the Administration notwith-
standing that you refused to make such Allowances the last
Session of Assembly when his Lordships unbounded Gener-
osity and Good Will to this province together with the publick
Conveniency of a Council 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.