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Officers attending both Houses, and all public Creditors who are
usually paid in the Public Levy, and that a Committee composed
of an equal Number of the Members of both Houses agreeable to
the last Levy Bill, and the usual Practice in such Cases may be
appointed to make the annual Assessment, in the Preamble therefore
to the Clause directing the annual Assessment after the Word Court
insert the following Words, and the Officers attending both Houses
of Assembly, and all other public Creditors, and in the enacting
Part of the said Clause strike out the Words, and the said Committee
together with so many Members of the Upper House not exceeding
two as the said House shall think fit to appoint, and in their Place
insert the following Words, and six Members of the upper House,
and six Members of the Lower House to be appointed by the said
respective Houses, and after the Words, Commissioners aforesaid,
insert the following Words, and also such Sums of Money and
Tobacco as shall be due to the Officers attending both Houses of
Assembly, and all other public Creditors usually provided for in
Levy Bills
You have taken Care by a Proviso proposed by you as an Amend-
ment to our Bill, that your Allowances shall be paid in your respective
Counties, But why Gentlemen? upon what Principle of Equity? is
your Convenience only to be consulted, and that of every other
Person whose Claim upon the Public is as justly and legally founded
as yours, injuriously neglected ? Here you seem to be too sollicitous
about your own Interest to remember the common Justice due to
others; that this Provision may be equal to all whose Claims upon
the Public rest on the same Foundation, insert the Words, to the
said Councillors, after the Word, Allowances, and after the Word
Delegates insert the Words, and the Dues of all Provincial Magis-
trates, Officers attending both Houses, and other Creditors afore-
said, and after the Word, paid, leave out the Words to each Delegate,
and insert the Words, in equal Proportions in the respective Counties
wherein they shall reside, and leave out the Words in the last Line
of the said Proviso, that the Delegates for such County, and instead
thereof insert the Words that the said Persons.
The last Alteration we shall trouble you with is to the Proviso
by which 'tis directed that " all such Councillors who shall serve
in the general Assembly, and also such Provincial Magistrates
who are, or shall be Inhabitants, and Residents of the City of
Annapolis, or whose Habitations are so near the said City that
they shall usually in assembly or Provincial Court-Time lodge at
Home, shall be allowed only one Half the Sum that others are
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