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failed to obtain satisfaction from the Governor, they addressed
the proprietary and the king. Their committee of aggrievances
reported again, with documents, in 1740. ³⁹

As this was a time when several matters were in dispute,
Deputy Secretary Jenings cannily proposed, in 1743, that Balti-
more concede a few issues, including the Examiner in Chancery,
so as to abate opposition to more important things, "... yet the
manner of Desisting from Them, ought to be rather by Disuse &
in General Terms, than by Explicit Disapprobation if it can be
avoided. " ⁴⁰ Prior to November, 1744, Young quietly resigned,
and his office then terminated. ⁴¹ Baltimore wanted to reward him
with the Naval Office of North Potomac; but as this had become
a possession of the Lees, His Lordship had to appoint him instead
Surveyor General of the Eastern Shore and, in 1746, one of the
Judges of the Land Office.

3. MILITARY OFFICERS.

Four minor provincial officers had salaried places on the military
establishment, namely, a Muster Master General and his successor
the Adjutant, for the drilling of militia; and a Master Gunner
and Armourer and a Commissary General for War, to care for
the provincial and county stores of arms. All of these eventually
fell victim to the Lower House's passion for economy: only the
Armourer long survived, and he lost his salary.

The first Muster Master General, Captain John Price, was
appointed August 12, 1648, and was given all the revenues of
any Muster Master in Virginia. ⁴² An act of April, 1650, repealed
in 1671, gave him yearly the proceeds of a poll tax of four pounds
of tobacco. Price's successor, Captain William Evans, appointed
by the Governor, March 13, 1660/1, died in 1668, and his office
died with him. ⁴³ After the Protestant Revolution (1689) the
Upper House sought to revive this post in a proposed militia bill

³⁹ Ibid., XLII, 110-11.

⁴⁰ Edmund Jenings to John Browning, 1743 (Ibid., XLII, 662).

⁴¹ Thomas Bladen to Lord Baltimore, Nov. 15, 1744 (Calvert Papers, II, 112).
Bladen remarks that Young is in possession of two offices, which are evidently
a Commissionership in the Loan Office and the post of Examiner General. So be
had already ceased to be Examiner and Master in Chancery.

⁴² Archives, III, 215.

⁴³ Ibid., III, 410. The extra-legal Puritans' Assembly, on Aug. 8, 1654, had
appointed Capt. John Smith Muster Master General for "St. Mary's, Potomac,
and Patuxent Counties" (Ibid., III, 315).