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Thirdly let us Examine how they might Compliment each other
out of this Fund without ever being Accountable for any Imbezzle-
ment or Misapplication. The Six Pence p hhd intended to be raised
by this Bill may be Calculated to amount Communibus Annis to 700 £
Sterling p annum The Sallary formerly allowed by this Province
to an Agent Used to be 100 £ sterling p Annum but suppose this to
be increased to 1 50 £ or 200 £ Sterling p Annum there would then
remain 500 £ or 600 £ Sterling p Annum and in the whole three
years 1500 or 1800 £ Sterling in their Hands or Power which they
might dispose of to such Uses and Purposes as they might from time
to time think necessary so that Whether they Applied it to the Use
and Service of the Province or to their own use which they might
Judge necessary They could not be Accountable for more than they
might think fit to Give their Agent For if they should have been
Questioned upon Laying their Account before the House of Dele-
gates what they had done with the Money they might truly say that
the Law was very Express that they should have Liberty of Applying
the Money to such uses and Purposes as they Judged Necessary
which they had Accordingly done and that they and none other
were the Proper Judges of the Necessity of such Uses and Purposes
Besides the Bill is so drawn in other Parts which relates to the Ac-
counting That by no Rules of Construction the Trustees could have
been Answerable for that money But what we have said is Suffi-
cient for the Present purpose
Hence you and the rest of the World may now Judge who Acted
with a Proper Care in the Disposall of the Countrys Money you who
Voted for so large a Sterling Sum Annually as 500 or 6oo £ Sterling
p Annum for the three Years to be. disposed of by certain Persons
called Trustees as they should think fit or We who neither then
Would nor now will concur in such a Vote and it would have
been more than probable if that Bill had Passed into a Law that
the People would very soon have had Cause to Acknowledge it
could not have been more Inconvenient to Commit this Trustee-
ship or Guardianship (If you would have it so) to any Gentle-
man in our House than to some Person out of it And we wish
that Opinion of Infallibility you mention was as far from Your
House as it is from ours

U. H. J.
No. 724

However we cannot be mistaken in this That such a Bill not to
be found in any English Government And which If it had Passed
into a Law would have had the Effects we before mentioned of Es-
tablishing a new and dangerous Power amongst ourselves making
the Whole Province ridiculous to our neighbours and the Risque of
Incurring his Majestys Displeasure
Your Message of the 6^th Instant would not have been less Decent
if the Extraordinary threat of the People doing themselves Justice
Had been- Omitted Whatever you may be pleased to Suggest to your

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