238 Assembly Proceedings, November 1-December 20, 1765.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Dec. 16

let the Satisfaction be made in what Manner it may for those the
late and present Clk of the Council ought to be paid there remains
exclusive of mere War Charges only 19,162^lb of Tobo which pro-
portioned on nine Years and six Months, the Time for which a
Salary is claimed at 9,600^lb of Tobo p Ann comes to 2016.^lb of Tobo
Yearly but for your Honours Ease and entire Satisfaction in this
Mre we have herewith sent you an Account which we think fully
demonstrates that M^r Ross since his first being Clk of the Council
has reced from the public to the Amount of 1 53,62 1.^Ib Tobo more
than he ought up to the Time of his resigning that Office under an
Abuse of the Rule you contend for that of allowing him an annual
Salary in the Journal for Services by him done for the Public.

We are at a Loss from what your Honours could take it to be
agreed "That a Salary to the Clk is the most convenient Satisfaction
and that the Salary of 9,6oo^lb Tobo or £60 Curr p Ann is a moderate
Allowance" As the Terms of our Message from which alone you
attempt to torture this Agreement of Ours by your own Recital
appear to be that "The Services done by the Clks of the Council
may merit some Salary the Quantum of w^ch we will not undertake to
ascertain" nor did we think it necessary to spend our Time in useless
Considerations on the Quantum of a Salary with which we con-
sidered ourselves at Least so far unconnected that it could not with
any Degree of Propriety be discharged by a further Tax on the
people. It is a Matter that we then thought and still think not prop-
erly now a Subject of our Deliberations and had not your Hon.^rs
laid so great a Stress on it we should not have troubled ourselves
with investigating a Truth that now must appear to the World that
the Salary of 9,600. ^Ib or £60 Curr^y p Ann is an immoderate Allow-
ance tho' your Hon.^rs with such Earnestness endeavour to maintain
the Contrary

We still allow as we did before that the Services done by the Clk
of the Council may merit some Salary and had that Admission been
kept in View it might have saved your Honours the unnecessary
Trouble of proving the same Thing: the Quantum made necessary
only by yourselves we think we have demonstrated to be flatly against
you and the Mode of Payment is in our Apprehension the only Point
now remaining to be discussed

May we request your Hon." Opinion whe.^r a Trust in its Nature
does not oblige the Trustee to render an Acco.^t? Whe.^r by our
Constitution an Acco.^t is not to be rendred for Monies granted for
public Uses? Whe.^r Monies granted for the Support of Gov^rnment
are not granted for Public Uses? the Freemen of this Province are
of Opinion in the Affirmative and we their Rep^rsentatives speak
their Sense on the Subject

We cannot think but that K. W.^m the 3^d the glorious Restorer of
English Liberties knew something of that Constitution which he