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yet We think it beyond doubt that when any duty is collected it ought
to be Applied to the Purposes for which it was given; for these
Reasons and others which might be used We cannot agree to burthen
the People with these Allowances; and We cannot but Express our
Hopes that the same good Disposition which Your Honours have
Shewn throughout this Session will prevail with You to weigh and
consider this Matter with attention, and that you will look on the
Service of that honourable Board in the Same light that We do and
that to prevent the great Inconveniencies arising from an Increase
of the Public debt and that the legal Creditors may Receive their
Several Claims, you will pass the Journal as is now Stands
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon
Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning
The following Message is Sent to the Lower house with the
Journal of Accounts by Richard Lee Esq.r
By the Upper house of Assembly 16 November 1753.
Gentlemen
In answer to your Message of this day We observe that you Say
" We agree to allow the late Governor for the Seal of five Special
Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and Goal delivery, to Cecil
County, but cannot Consent to allow the Seals of fifteen Proclama-
tions relating to his Lordships assent to the Inspection Law " and
the Reason you give is, because it was never yet thought needful
for the Validity of them, without entering into any Discussion with
you on that Point We say that the issuing those Proclamations at
that time was necessary to Satisfie the minds of the People who had
been made to believe that the Inspection Law was or would be dis-
sented to and as this was a special Case which may never probably
happen again We hope you will agree to allow the same.
As to the Allowance for the Council of State and their Clerk, We
refer you to the proceedings in the debates thereupon entered in your
own Journals and particularly to the Journals of the year 1736 in
which there are Messages between the two houses in the following
words viz.t
By the Upper house of Assembly 5 May 1736.
Gentlemen
The refusal of the Councillors allowance has occasioned so much
unnecessary Expence to the Country that We assure you of our
Resolution never to agree to the Journals unless you will be pleased
to Consent to what is Strictly regular with Regard to those Allow-
ances Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.
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Liber No. 34
November 16
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