And for what Disbursements and Services done on the same Island, for publick Service there is very little if any thing paid them : When for publick Disbursements and Services done up Hudsms River (do but give it the Name for their Majesties Service) altho' it be to draw Trade to them, or to go to piu-chase Land for themselves, it is brought to the Assembly to put the Charge upon the Country ; and for the most part they get twice so much as others in part of the Government would demand for the same Service. if it were for the Publick.

It is a Privilege to have an Assembly, if it were as near as may be according to the Number of the People in each County, '' that Justice and Right miglit be done: But to have the Name and nothing of the Nature, is but a Snare to the greatest Part of

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the People in the Colony, and would be easier for them that there was not any Assembly, than to have such an One as endeavour to live upon tlieir Neighbours, and not by them, and shall be called True and Loyal Suljecis, complying to all Proposals for 'some Mens Advantage ; when others, endeavouring to have Justice and Right done, and speak any thing for Property and Liberty of the Subjects, shall be looked upon as Cmninals, if not 'prosecuted for the same, as Capt. Mulford was. It is supposed there are some things else besides Loyalty^ as An Office with a Sallary, A Grant of some Lands, and A Sallery of Tliree Hundred Pounds per Ann. to the Commissioners of the Indian Affairs at Albany ; though it is not known to the Country, what Service they do to the King or Country, except it be to draw Trade to themselves and Debts upon the Country, and procure a Resolve of the Assembly to allow them 300/. fer Annum for five Years, and also to Allow the Indians 400/. by a Resolve of the House for the same time.