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to be made him of his last years revenue (Viz) the -2' gd p :
hhd Deducting thereout 1000" for your Exncys Sallary: This I
shewed you in my Instructions which (I doubt not) you knew
before from Mr Bordley I therefore desire you will please to
give orders to the Severall officers In whose hands that
revenue is placed to account with and pay me the same to his
Lordships use, for a very small delay in this matter will be of
great prejudice to his Lordship because thereby he will fail
of it this year which I hope your Exn^oT will think fitt to prevent
I most humbly recomend to your Exncy that Caution be used

L. H. J.

in assenting to some Laws which I understand are prepared
and whereby his Lordships Interest will evidently Suffer
detriment without a Salvo at least of their not takeing Effect
till his Lordships pleasure be known That his Lordship may
have time (if he shall think it proper) to square his proceed-
ings to the tenour of such Laws. I am
Yr Exncys very humble Servt
Cha: Carroll
Which was thus Endorsed (Viz)

Gent of the Upr & Lowr houses of Assembly,
I Just now received the Inclosed Insnareing and Insolent
letter and Considering the circumstance of my health it is
very Inhumane in Mr Carroll.
As to what that Gent speaks of my Sallary I know not
what he means, the word Sallary being a Terme too mean and
base to accept from a Subject by a person who has had the
honour to serve the Crown in so many Imployments. In the
next place the 1000ll he mentions was putt into his Instructions
by Carroll's own procurement as a Genl of the Lower House
can Amply declare, and tho it be in his Instructions I have the
law on my side, and if I had not I disdain as a protestant
Governour to goe to a Virulent Papist to know when my
family may have leave to Eat Upon the whole I cannt see
what this Insolent man would be at Except the 3d p hhd for
Arms, which I have before told my Resolution on and yet he
now positively and Impudently demands it to be payed to him.
Pray Genl give him your Opinion Jo Hart.

In answer to which the following Message was prepared &
ordered to be Entred as follows (Viz)

By the Lower House of Assembly
Augt 9th 1716
May it please your Honrs
Your message of this day togither with his Exncys letter to
both Houses, on Mr Carroll's letter to him has been read and

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