270 Assembly Proceedings, November 1—December 6, 1766.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

emitted on the Foundation of the Public Money now in the Funds
not only to the amount of the Journal and List of Debts but also
to that of the late and present Clerk of the Council their claim and
the further sum of Fifteen hundred pounds That those who have
already Allowances on the Journal and List of Debts receive their
Allowances in Bills of Credit. That a sum to the Amount of the
Claims of the late and present Clerk of the Council be put into the
hands of the Treasurers and be by them placed out at Interest

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and the principal and Interest be paid to the Late and present Clerk
of the Council or their Representatives in case the King in Council
shall so order, otherwise such Principal and Interest to be and
remain the property of the Publick and that the said sum of Fifteen
hundred pounds in Bills of Credit be paid to the Order of the Lower
House of Assembly and invested in Bills of Exchange to Enable
the Lower House of Assembly for the time being to employ and
retain an Agent in London
And Whereas the Conferrees of the Upper House did inform
the Conferrees of the Lower House that they were Instructed by
their House to answer to the proposal made them by the Conferrees
of the Lower House that the Lower House having represented
that their Sentiments were directly opposite to the Opinion They
the Upper House had on mature Consideration formed upon the
Subject of the Clerk of the Councils Claim of a Salary or Com-
pensation for his services but that they were extremely desirous a
fair and Equitable Expedient for terminating the Subsisting Differ-
ence might take place but that the proposition made by them in
pursuance of the Instructions of their house appeared to them to be
unequal and inconsistent with their indubitable Rights and there-
fore they had resolved not to Accept thereof but that they had on
their parts further to propose, That an appeal be made by the
Two houses to his Majesty in Council on the Subject of their
Disagreement That such sum of publick Money be paid to the order
of the President of the Upper House as might be sufficient to
defray the expence which might Attend the prosecution of the
Appeal on their part and an equal sum of public money be paid to
the order of the Speaker of the Lower house of Assembly for the
like purpose of defraying the charge of the appeal on their part
and moreover as an alternative in case the Lower House should
not agree to the above Application of the Public Money That the
Appeal on each side be made and prosecuted without the Allotment
or Application of any Public Money for that purpose and that in
case the Lower house should agree to an Appeal upon the terms
either of the former or latter proposition That such persons as
have Allowances in the Journal of Accounts and in the List of
Debts should receive their respective Allowances as soon as might
be and that a sum equal to the amount of the Claims of the late