82 Assembly Proceedings, November 1—December 20, 1765.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Dec. 12

An Act for erecting a new Parish in Kent County called Chester
County [sic] [Parish] & for building a Parish Church and enlarging
a Chapel of Ease within the said New Parish
These Bills read and assented to and ordered to be subscribed
The Paper Bills so endorsed sent down by Benedict Calvert Esq.^r
Adjourned until 3 ^oClock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
The following Message along with the Journal of Accounts is
brought by Mess.^rs Murdoch and three more
By the Lower House of Assembly Dec.^r 12^th 1765
May it please Your Honours
We have taken into our Consideration your Message of the 9:^th
Ins.^t by Benedict Calvert Esquire, as also the Report of the Com-
mittee appointed to examine the Proceedings of the Council, together
with the Account of Particulars furnished by the late and present
Clerk; and altho the Services done by the Clerks of the Council may
merit some Salary, the Quantum of which we shall not undertake
to ascertain; yet we are clearly of Opinion, that under the peculiar
Circumstances of this Province, such Salary ought not to be inserted
in the Journal, nor in any Manner paid by a further Tax upon the
People we represent.
We are not ignorant, that the Governor is assisted in the Ad-
ministration of Government with the Advice of a Privy-Council;
and we do admit that an officer, for the Purposes you mention, may
be expedient, but as such Officer is chiefly employed in Acts of
Government, so he ought, in Justice, to be paid out of the monies

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taken from the People for the Support of Government Your Hon-
ours well know that the provincial Amerciaments, Fines arising by
the common Law, and Forfeitures under Acts of Assembly of this
Province, granting the same for Support of Government, amount
Annually to a considerable Sum, and that under Colour of an Act
of Assembly in the Year Seventeen hundred and ffour, there has
been collected for many Years a Duty of One Shilling Sterling p
Hogshead on all Tobacco exported out of this Province, to the
Annual Account of near ffourteen hundred Pounds Sterling, which
hath been received by the Lord Proprietary of this Province, and
ought, agreeable to the express Directions of that Act to be applied
towards the support of Government; And from anything we have
ever been able to learn to the Contrary, there remains of those
Monies unapplied to any Public Use, more than sufficient to make
the late and present Clerk of the Council full Compensation for all
their Services