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of Appeals. There were also included payments for repairs to the Council
Chamber of £2113:0 sterling, and expenses of £12: 18: 10 incurred several
years before by the Council for provisions given to the "French Neutrals" or
Acadians (pp. 74-75). When this message was considered in the Lower House,
the vote on these proposed payments of salaries to the clerks shows that public
opinion was almost solidly in favor of the Lower House stand that the expenses
of the Council, as representing the Proprietary, should be paid by him and not
by the public. The Lower House voted 43 to I against inclusion of payment
of 81,600 and 8,800 pounds of tobacco respectively to the two clerks of the
Council, Edmund Key of St. Mary's alone voting in the affirmative (pp. 202-
204). On further consideration the Lower House agreed to other contro-
versial items just mentioned and insisted upon by the upper chamber, including
payments to the clerks of both houses for copying proceedings (journals) of
the Assembly for the years 1761, 1762, 1763, and 1764 (p. 205). It then
passed a resolution, however, that hereafter no repairs to the Council Chamber
made by order of the Council would be paid at the expense of the public;
and on December 7, a message was sent to the Upper House outlining these
actions, and adding that if the Upper House would lay before it a paiticular
account of all the charges made by the clerks for services performed by them,
to which they were entitled under the laws of the Province, the house would
willingly include them in the Journal (pp. 212-213).

In a message dated December 9 the Upper House declared that the clerks'
accounts had been examined and verified by a committee of the Upper House,
and a copy of its report in regard to them, dated November 15 (p. 51) and
signed by Henry and Hooper, was being transmitted together with the clerks'
own accounts (pp. 77-78, 115-130). It was presumed that these would satisfy
the Lower House that the services done by the clerks deserved the salary
allowed and paid to these officers in every journal down to the year 1756,
when the Lower House had first refused its assent. The message declared that
the Governor by the Constitution was assisted in his executive duties by the
advice of the Council, in giving notice of meetings, orders to subordinates, and
in preserving the records of its proceedings, and that these duties had always
been performed by the clerk, who had always until 1756, been paid for them
as a constitutional officer in the Journal of Accounts; that the repairs to the
Council Chamber had been made to shelter the members from the inclemency
of the weather, and had they not been made, it would have been necessary to
contract for a room in a private house, as for its own convenience the Lower
House had done and provided payment for this in the Journal (pp. 215-216).
With this message the Upper House transmitted a copy of the account of the
Clerk of the Council.

The accounts filed by the clerks of the Council which were sent to the lower
chamber by the Upper House accompanying its message of December 9, were
entered in full in the manuscript journals of both houses (pp. 115-130, 216),
but, for some reason not clear, were not included by Jonas Green, the public
printer, in the printed Votes and Proceedings of the Lower House for the
November-December, 1765, session. This omission aroused the ire of the