382 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 6, 1725.

L. H. J.

Ury. In favour of Orlando Griffith and Uxor Severally
thus Endorst viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly
Novem^r the I^st 1725
The Engrost Bill whereof this is the Originall is assented
to by this House.
Sign'd p Order Geo: Plater Cl. Up: Ho :

And Delivers M^r Speaker the following Message viz :

By the Upper House of Assembly

Novem^r the 1^st 1725.
Gentlemen.

p. 82

You may well percieve by his Lordships Speech Delivered
to Both Houses of Assembly at the Opening this Sessions
that we are not to Expect any Gratuity from his Lordship for
our Service as a Councell of State out of the Money Raised
for the Support of Government. This obliges us again to
apply to you, for what we take to be our just Right for our
Service in Councell viz: One hundred and fifty Pounds of
Tobacco p Day with Itinerant Charges as usuall which use
or Custom we find grounded upon an agreement between the
House of Delegates and Governour and Councill in an As-
sembly held in Sept^r and Octo^r Anno Dni 1694 an Authority
not heretofore Quoted or Discovered which agreement Suc-
ceeding Assemblies would not Recced from, when the then
Governour proposed a Standing Sallary for the Councell in
Money but Insisted that the Allowance of One hundred and
fifty Pounds of Tobacco p Day was well Settled and so it ap-
pears to have been, for we do not find it disputed till very
lately.

Gentlemen.
We desire you would Impartially Consider this Affair and
then we promise our selves that we shall not be Distinguisht
from the Rest of our fellow Subjects by being Obliged to
Serve the Publick at our own Expence.
Sign'd p Order Geo. Plater Cl. Up: Ho :

Phillip Lee Esq^r from the Upper House of Assembly De-
livers M^r Speaker the Bill for Destroying Squirrells thus
Endorst viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly
Novem^rthe I^st 1725
This Bill being Read will pass with this Amendment Squir-