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By the Lower House of Assembly 22d April 1735
Read the first & Second time by an especial Order & will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Ct Lo Ho.
Read the first and second time by an especial Order in this House
and will pass the following Words being left out, to be distributed
& sent to the several Countys of this province
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.
Sent by Philip Lee Esqr
The following Message is Sent by Benjamin Tasker Esqr
By the Upper House of Assembly 22d April 1735
Gentlemen
It may be remembered by many of the Members of your House
that for some years past his Lordships Council of State for this
Province have not had any Allowance for their Attendance in
Council as formerly they had altho their Claim thereto has frequently
been by them insisted on but through Mistake & prejudice hitherto
unjustly denied
But forasmuch as We conceive such Allowance to be justly due to
us as a Council of State and that we are in hopes those party
Prejudices and passionate heats which first occasioned the refusal
of that allowance are not now Subsisting in your House We think
it reasonable again to renew our Claim thereto being perswaded
that upon a mature and impartial Consideration of that affair you
cannot but conclude with us that it is justly due especially con-
sidering that even those Who first refused to make the usual Allow-
ance to the Council did never deny that they ought to be paid but
pretended to excuse themselves from making such Allowances by
alledging It ought to be paid Some other way, which they could
never point out to us, by which means besides the fatigue to our
persons and the Service We hope we have done in our Stations We
have been obliged to bear our own Expences at all times when We
attend in Council which we doubt not but your House will think
unreasonable and consent to make us the same Allowances formerly
2 made either in the present Journal of Accompts or at the laying the
next Levy
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.
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