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Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
M.r John Goldsborough appeared in the House.
Samuel Chamberlaine, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to
M.r Speaker the Journal of Accounts, and the following Message,
viz.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
May 4
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By the Upper House of Assembly, May 4, 1756.
Gentlemen,
In Answer to your Message, with the Journal of Accounts, we are
as far from endeavouring to lay the People under any unnecessary
Burthen as you can be; we do not deny, but the present Rent of the
Governor's House may be something more than what may have
been allowed of heretofore, yet, you cannot but know, the Governor
could not have been otherwise supplied with a House at the Time
he arrived amongst us: The Account sent to your Committee, was
stated from a Demand M.r Brice made of that Sum for Rent. We
hope you'll join with us, and think the present House-Rent may be
well worth One Hundred Pounds per Annum, and make the Allow-
ance accordingly.
We could not have imagined the Payment of Twenty-three Pistoles
to the Governor, for Transcribing the Laws, would have met with
the least Hesitation, since they were done by Directions of his
Majesty, and for which Service so large a Sum many Years ago
was paid to a former Governor, when the Laws were not above Half
in Number what they now are; but as you seem inclined to postpone
it only for the present, we shall do the same, in full Confidence that
you will allow it at a future Session.
As to the Charge of 1350 lbs. of Tobacco to the late Governor,
for the Seals to fifteen Proclamations, relating to his Lordship's
Assent to the Inspecting Law, we believe it was not intended to give
the Law any additional Force, but thought necessary to quiet the
Minds of the People, who had been made to believe that the Law was
or would be Dissented to; and as this may probably never happen
again, we hope you will agree to allow it.
As to the Allowance for the Members of the Council, for their
Attendance as a Council of State, though you are pleased to recite
to us, An Act directing the Manner of electing Delegates, &c. that
Act can only be understood to direct what Allowance shall be made
to the Members of the Two Houses, for attending in Assembly
Time: We might refer you to other Acts, and your own Journals,
for the Counsellors Allowance, which, we think, both reasonable and
just; but, as this Session hath been continued much longer than
heretofore, we are willing, for the Ease of the good People of this
Province, to wave our Allowance at this Time, that the Journal may
pass, and to reserve that Allowance to a future Session.
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