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U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Dec. 9
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as of the Clerks Accounts, by which we presume, it will appear to
your Satisfaction, that the public Services, done by the Clerk, well
deserve the Salary claimed by Him and uniformly allowed to this
Officer in every Journal to this Time. That the Governor, by the
Constitution of this Province, is assisted in the Administration of
the Executive Powers of Government, by the Advice of the Council,
and the Expediency of appointing an Officer, to give Notice to the
Members of the Council when their Attendance is requisite, to
prepare the Mandates that issue occasionally to the Subordinate
Ministers, and to Record and preserve Memorials of the Proceedings
in this Department, is so obvious, that we apprehend it would be
unnecessary, to produce any direct Proofs to establish the Fact, That
there hath always been a Clerk attendant upon the Council, or to
offer any formal Arguments to evince, that as the Council, by our
Constitution, assist the Governor with their Advice, in the Ad-
ministration of the Powers vested in Him as supreme Magistrate,
so their Clerk is a Constitutional Officer. According to this Idea,
he hath always been paid in the Journal of Accounts for his services
to the Community, and hath been enjoyned to perform various
Duties, by many Acts of Assembly without the Allotment of par-
ticular Rewards.
The Repairs of the Council Chamber were necessary to Shelter
us from the Inclemency of the Weather, & we must take the Liberty
to inform you, that whatever your Resolves may be, we shall, without
any Scruple, take Care to have a proper place to meet in, when we
are called together to transact the Public Business.
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p. 248
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If the Council Chamber had not ben repaired, there would have
been a Necessity for making a Contract for the Use of a Room in
some private House, as you have done, and there would be the same
Reason for applying the public Money in which our Money is as well
included as yours, to the Discharge of our Contract, as yours for
the like Convenience to yourselves.
Signed p Order Upton Scott Cl: Up: Ho:
Adjourned until 3 oClock in the Afternoon.
Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning
Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House, the
Petitions of sundry of the Inhabitants of Prince Georges County,
praying the Repeal of the Squirrel Law, the rebuilding their Prison,
and the Erection of a Workhouse, as also, the Petition of Baldwin
Skidmore a Prisoner in Prince Georges County Goal, sent by John
Ridout Esquire.
Adjourned until 10 oClock Tomorrow Morning
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