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the governor's desire for the granting of supplies in bulk and for a number of years at once, and tb insisted upon granting supplies of money only from year to year, and with applications specified, thus fixing the salaries for governor and other officials only per annum and by name, so that obnoxious persons were in danger of being left unpaid." The issue was a radical one, and gave rise to strong feeling on both sides. It is a curious fact that Lewis Morris, whose chief claim to remembrance is his identification with the great popular agitation of a later period, whereof, indeed, he was one of the heroes, was, in this early controversy between the " Court party " and the people, the mainstay of the former. Moreover, the warmth of his advocacy of the governor's cause was such that, on account of violent language in the course of debate, he was expelled from the assembly. He was thereupon re-elected to his seat by his Westchester constituents. Morris was appointed to the office of chief justice of New York by Governor Hunter on the 13th of March, 1715.