28 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-May 28, 1737.

U. H. J.

Lib. No. 33

The following Message with the Journall of Accounts is sent by
Phil: Lee Esq^r

By the Upper house of Assembly 26 May 1737
Gentlemen
On Considering the Journal of Accounts sent hither by Coll: King
and three Others, We Observe to Our Surprize that his Excellency
the Governor has not been Considered as a Member of the high Court
of Appeals, no Allowance being made him for the same, nor a Suffi-
cient Sum given to Discharge the Annual Rent of his Excellencys
House

We likewise take notice, that though you have Acknowledged very
Justly the great Abilities of the Chief Justice of the Provincial Court,
the great fatigue he undergoes by the remoteness of his Residence, yet
you have not Allowed him more than half the Allowance made last
year, a Sum insufficient to support the Dignity of a Chief Justice
and much too small a Reward for his great Services.
And we also take Notice that M^r Ross Our Clerk is not fully
Allowed for fourteen Copies of the Laws, though the Coppying the
same is a Work much greater than that of M^r Parks for Printing the
whole whose Allowance is Twenty four thousand pounds of Tobacco ;
and was M^r Ross to Charge Agreeable to My Lords Regulation the
Amount would be near Two hundred pounds at Ten Shillings p^r
hundred and according to which Regulation he was allowed for Tran-
scribing the Ordinary Licence Law last year.
We propose therefore that the Allowance to M^r Ross may be
encreased to fifty six pounds agreeable to his Account, and that a Bill
be brought in to Disable M^r Parkes from receiving the Tobacco
allowed him by Law from the County Courts since, he has not done the
Service for which the Reward was intended.

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We therefore desire you'l make the Just Allowance to his Excel-
lency and Consider the Chief Justice as you did Last Year as well as
M^r Ross in The manner proposed with which Addition and Allow-
ances the Journal will pass.
Signed p^r Order John Ross C^l Up H.

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Committee to inspect the Proceed-
ings of the Commissioners of the Paper Currency Office makes the
following Report
At a Committee of both Houses appointed to inspect the Office and
Proceedings of the Commissioners for emitting the Paper Money in
Maryland 19 May 1737