188 Assembly Proceedings, May 26-June 22, 1741.

U.H.J,

Yesterday by M^r Sprigg and others with the Journal of Accounts
wherein you seem to suppose the Allowances made to them were
only for their Services in Assembly time; if You are right Your
Journal is very wrong, for You have made Annual Allowances to
both in Years wherein We had no Session, and allowed Your own
Clerk for extraordinary Services done, tho you refuse to do it to
Ours for some done at the request of Your own Committee; but
the Difference you make between the two Clerks does not appear
so extraordinary as Your claiming a Right to have the Council
Books laid before Your Committee, for We find by a Message the
Lower House the 2^d April 1698 made an Apology for a thing of
the like Sort in these Words as to our sending a Verbal Message to
the Clerk of the Council for Papers without his Majestys honble
Councils Knowledge or Leave We acknowledge the same an Error
but not any wise done out of Presumption as likewise the like Error
in sending for the honble Sir Thomas Lawrence Secretary
We are not less Surprized at Your refusing an Allowance to
M^r Green for printing some Orders of Council which We affirm
was done by Order of his Excellency Our Governor after some of
Your members had made great Complaint that they were not Printed
You may well remember that both Houses agreed in the Year
1739 to allow M^r Green for Printing all things of Publick nature
that he should be directed to Print either by the Governor or either
House of Assembly and why you should allow him for Printing
things directed by your selves and refuse to comply with that part
of your Contract that relates to the Governor and Upper House, We
can only account for by supposing you are unwilling the Country
should be acquainted with what can be said on the part of the
Government
However as Your Journal already amounts to 11510^£..9^s..4^d We
shall not insist on Your making at present any of the Allowances
in dispute between us, but shall refer them till next Sessions and have
accordingly sent Your Journal down Assented to
Signed p Order J Ross Cl Up Ho.

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

June 20
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Saturday Morning 20 June 1741

This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon